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The Job Quality of U.S. Immigrants
Author(s) -
ENCHAUTEGUI MARÍA E.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2008.00506.x
Subject(s) - immigration , quality (philosophy) , demographic economics , duration (music) , business , political science , economics , law , art , philosophy , literature , epistemology
This paper compares authorized and unauthorized immigrants in terms of twelve job‐quality indicators. Along all indicators examined, unauthorized immigrants score lower than the authorized. The lower job quality of the unauthorized prevails even when compared to authorized immigrants with similar educational levels and duration of stay.