How does race operate among Asian Americans in the labor market? : Occupational segregation and different rewards by occupation among native-born Chinese American and Japanese American male workers

Authors

Chang Won Lee

Orginal Publication Date

2010

Journal Title

Ethnic Studies Review

Volume

33

Issue

esr/vol33/iss1

First Page

93

Last Page

129

Comments

Comparative Immigrant & Gender Considerations

Abstract

The effect of race in the U.S. labor market has long been controversial. One posits that racial effects have been diminished since the civil rights movement of the 1960s (Alba & Nee, 2003; Sakamoto, Wu, & Tzeng, 2000; Wilson, 1980). Even if some disparities in labor-market outcomes among race groups are found, advocates of this "declining significance of race" thesis do not attribute these disparities to racial discrimination. They, instead, understand the racial gaps as a result of class composition of racial minority groups, classes represented by larger proportions of the working-class population (Wilson, 1980, 1997) as well as unskilled-immigrant workers (Borjas, 1994).

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