Immigrant employment through the Great Recession: Individual characteristics and metropolitan contexts |
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| Institution: | 1. Brown University and Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, Universidad de la República, Uruguay;2. Leeds University Business School, IZA, and Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, Universidad de la República, Uruguay;3. Instituto de EconomÃa, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, Universidad de la República, Uruguay;1. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Medicine;2. University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology;3. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences;1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada;2. Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada;3. Vitalité Health Network, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada;4. New Brunswick Department of Health, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada;5. New Brunswick Health Council, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada;1. Aix-Marseille University (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS & EHESS, GREQAM, 2 rue de la Charité, F-13002 Marseille, France;2. Université de Toulon (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS & EHESS, GREQAM, 2 rue de la Charité, F-13002 Marseille, France;3. Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale (LPS), Aix-Marseille University, 29 avenue Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence, France |
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| Abstract: | Immigrants continue to settle in metropolitan areas across the United States and bring significant changes to various urban labor markets. Using American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2007 and 2011, we trace the employment outcomes of immigrants compared to native-born workers before and after the recent Great Recession across the 100 largest metropolitan areas and examine individual-level and metropolitan-level factors that shape their employment outcomes. We find that low-skilled workers in general and immigrants without English proficiency and those who are new entrants or earliest arrivals are harder hit in the recession. Latino immigrants and black workers fare worse in areas with high immigrant concentration. Latino immigrants experience employment gains, however, in the South, large urban economies, as well as new immigrant gateways. Asian immigrants see declines in employment likelihood in areas with a large construction sector, while areas with a large trade sector hurt native-born white workers. |
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| Keywords: | Immigration Employment Recession Metropolitan Areas |
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