Unauthorized Mexican Immigration, Day Labour and other Lower-wage Informal Employment in California

Enrico Marcelli

Regional Studies, 2004, vol. 38, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: Marcelli E. A. (2004) Unauthorized Mexican immigration, day labour and other lower-wage informal employment in California, Reg. Studies 38, 1-13. Consistent with the marginalization but not the globalization hypothesis, this paper finds that the level of lower-wage informal employment in California during the 1990s fell from 17% to 14% of the labour force; informal workers were more likely to be male, younger, non-white, foreign-born, and employed in the Personal Service and Agriculture sectors; and a Californian was more likely to work informally if residing in a relatively less populous, lower-income region with a relatively high rate of home ownership. Although welfare use had a positive effect on the probability of working informally in 1990, thereafter it did not.

Keywords: Immigration; Informal work; Day labour; Welfare; Immigration; Travail informel; Main-d'oeuvre journaliere; Bien-etre; Einwanderung; Informelle Tatigkeit; Tagelohnerarbeit; Wohlfahrt; Inmigracion; Trabajo informal; Trabajo diario; Proteccion social (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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