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Latinas In The Labor Market, Lorna Rivera, Vishakha Agarwal, Phillip Granberry
Latinas In The Labor Market, Lorna Rivera, Vishakha Agarwal, Phillip Granberry
Gastón Institute Publications
In Massachusetts, the share of Latinas in the overall population has been rapidly increasing. From 2000 to 2019, the number of Latinas increased by 81.5%1 even as the number of Non-Latina women declined by about 5.8% during that same period. The share of Non-Latina White women in the Massachusetts female population dropped from approximately 82% in 2000 to 71% in 2019.
This report offers an in-depth look at the difference between the median wage income and other labor market outcomes of Latina and Non-Latina women in the Massachusetts workforce. (A great majority of Non-Latina women workers in Massachusetts are White …