Implications and Policy Suggestions

Ginny Garcia ()
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Ginny Garcia: University of Texas, San Antonio, Department of Sociology

Chapter Chapter 8 in Mexican American and Immigrant Poverty in the United States, 2011, pp 129-132 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract As mentioned above, the associations with poverty of a number of the variables employed at both the individual and contextual levels call for further investigation. At the individual levelindividual level , some of the most salient predictors were immigration status (for Mexican Americans), unemployment status, number of children present, number of years spent in the USA (For Mexican immigrants), employment in a Mexican immigrant job, and undocumentedundocumented status (for Mexican immigrants). The descriptive statistics revealed that both the Mexican American and Mexican immigrant populations are significantly disadvantaged relative to other ethnic groups. In some cases they displayed poverty rates nearly four times higher than those of the comparison populations. The importance of this finding lies in the fact that protections were in place to ensure that family structure would not interfere in the prediction of poverty. As such, other factors are much more significant in the prediction of poverty for Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants. The predictors related to immigration played a significant role in the prediction of poverty and serve to underscore its importance in the determination of any poverty outcome. In addition, employment in a Mexican immigrant job was a significant predictor of poverty status for both populations and serves to highlight the importance of type of occupation rather than actual employment status per se for these groups. As a result, we clearly see the effects of wage inequality on the Mexican American and Mexican immigrant populations.

Keywords: Minimum Wage; Wage Inequality; Poverty Status; Mexican Immigrant; Citizenship Status (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0539-5_8

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