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Hispanic Ancestry And Racial Self-Identity: Empirical Effects Of Social Norms, Patrick Leon Mason
Hispanic Ancestry And Racial Self-Identity: Empirical Effects Of Social Norms, Patrick Leon Mason
Patrick L. Mason
This paper empirically examines the effects on own-group racial identity norms on individual Hispanic racial identification. The percentage of all regional Hispanics self-identifying as white is this study’s measure of the racial identity norm. The rise in the fraction of Hispanic population self-identifying as white discourages individual respondents from self-identifying as non-white. We also find that increases in a region’s white Hispanic identity norm decrease the probability of individual Hispanic self-identification as Latino and reduces the probability of self-identifying as black.
Immigration And African American Wages And Employment: Critically Appraising The Empirical Evidence, Patrick Leon Mason
Immigration And African American Wages And Employment: Critically Appraising The Empirical Evidence, Patrick Leon Mason
Patrick L. Mason
This paper critically assesses the empirical evidence on the relationship between immigration and African American employment. Studies using various methodologies and data are reviewed: natural experiments, time series, and cross-sectional studies of local labor markets and intertemporal changes in the national labor market. We find that for African Americans as a whole, immigration may have little effect on mean wages and probability of employment. However, there is some evidence that immigration may have had an adverse impact on the labor market outcomes of African Americans belonging to low education-experience groups. However, even this modest conclusion must be qualified: the literature …
Distributional Analysis Of Labor And Property Income Among New Seniors And Early Retirees: By Race, Gender, Region, And Intertemporal Cohort, 1965-2006, Patrick Leon Mason
Distributional Analysis Of Labor And Property Income Among New Seniors And Early Retirees: By Race, Gender, Region, And Intertemporal Cohort, 1965-2006, Patrick Leon Mason
Patrick L. Mason
The tables herein provide detailed descriptive statistics for changes in labor and property income during 1965 – 2006. We are particularly interested in secular changes in racial inequality since the demise of formal segregation during the mid-1960s. Accordingly, we construct an overlapping series of four synthetic intertemporal cohorts of new seniors (ages 50 – 64) and early retirees (ages 65 and above). Cohorts are separated by the troughs of recessions: 1974-75, 1981-2, 1991-92, 2001-02. As we move from the 1st to the 5th cohort, there is a decline in racial gap in the quantity of education, the quality of education, …
Intergenerational Mobility And Interracial Inequality: The Return To Family Values, Patrick Leon Mason
Intergenerational Mobility And Interracial Inequality: The Return To Family Values, Patrick Leon Mason
Patrick L. Mason
This paper investigates two questions. First, what is the relative importance of the components of childhood family environment – parental values versus parental class status – for young adult economic outcomes? Second, are interracial differences in labor market outcomes fully explained by differences in family environment? We find that both family values and family class status affect intergenerational mobility and interracial inequality. Consideration of racial differences in parental values and class status alters but does not eliminate the impact of race on the labor market outcomes of young adults.