Immigration and opportunity
Subtitle: race, ethnicity, and employment in the United States
By: Frank D. Bean and Stephanie Bell-Rose, editors.
Contributors: Bean, Frank D.; Bell-Rose, Stephanie.
Edition: 1st paper cover ed.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780871541512
Subjects: Alien labor -- United States; African Americans -- Employment; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Other titles: Race, ethnicity, and employment in the United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Immigration, spatial and economic change, and African American employment / Frank D. Bean, Jennifer Van Hook, and Mark A. Fossett; title: Mexican immigration, occupational niches, and labor-market competition: evidence from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta, 1970 to 1990 / Michael J. Rosenfeld and Marta Tienda; title: Ethnic concentrations and labor-market opportunities / Franklin D. Wilson; title: Entrepreneurship and economic progress in the 1990s: a comparative analysis of immigrants and African Americans / Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou; title: Minority niches and immigrant enclaves in New York and Los Angeles: trends and impacts / John R. Logan and Richard D. Alba; title: West Indians and African Americans at work: structural differences and cultural stereotypes / Mary C. Waters; title: Network, bureaucracy, and exclusion: recruitment and selection in an immigrant metropolis / Roger Waldinger; title: Newly emerging Hispanic communities in the United States: a spatial analysis of settlement patterns, in-migration fields, and social receptivity / James J. Johnson Jr., Karen D. Johnson-Webb, and Walter C. Farrell Jr.; title: New black migration patterns in the United States: are they affected by recent immigration? / William H. Frey; title: The impact of immigration on residential segregation / Michael J. White and Jennifer E. Glick; title: How immigration and intermarriage affect the racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population / Barry Edmonston and Jeffrey S. Passel.