Immigration, poverty, and socioeconomic inequality /

Immigration, poverty, and socioeconomic inequality / David Card and Steven Raphael, editors. - 1 online resource (484 pages) : illustrations. - National poverty center series on poverty and public policy . - National Poverty Center series on poverty and public policy. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editors introduction / by David Card and Steven Raphael -- Composition, competition, and the geography of immigrant poverty -- The impact of immigration on native poverty through labor market competition / by Giovanni Peri -- Immigrant-native substitutability : the role of language ability / by Ethan Lewis -- Immigration, segregation, and poverty in the U.S. / by Michael Stoll -- "New destinations" and immigrant poverty / by Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, and Matthew Townley -- Intergenerational mobility within immigrant communities -- Intergenerational mobility among immigrants and their descendants / by Renee Reichl Luthra and Roger Waldinger -- Opportunity horizons and cultures of mobility : frames of achievement among second generation Mexicans, Chinese, and Vietnamese / by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou -- Assessing human capital and intergenerational mobility among 1.5 generation undocumented young adults / by Roberto G. Gonzales -- Public policy and poverty among the foreign born -- The new Latino underclass : immigration enforcement as a race-making institution / by Douglas S. Massey -- Employment effects of state legislation against the hiring of undocumented workers / by Sarah Bohn and Magnus Lofstrom -- Immigration, welfare reform, and the U.S. safety net / by Marianne Bitler and Hilary W. Hoynes -- Immigration and redistributive social policy / by Cybelle Fox, Irene Bloemraad, and Christel Kesler -- Immigrants in Europe -- Immigration : the European experience / by Christian Dustmann and Tomasso Frattini -- Index.

9781610448048 (e-book)


Immigrants--Social conditions.
Children of immigrants--Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
Immigrants--Employment.
Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.


Electronic books.

JV6225 / .I46 2013

305.9/06912