The Effects of Nativity and Legal Status Signals in the U.S. Labor Market

Name: The Effects of Nativity and Legal Status Signals in the U.S. Labor Market
Published: 2022-06-02
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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Project Citation:

Kreisberg, A. Nicole. The Effects of Nativity and Legal Status Signals in the U.S. Labor Market. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-06-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/E171841V1

Project Description

Summary: This digital collection is the result of research that examines the effects of nativity and legal status on the labor market prospects of Latino students exiting higher education. Specifically, this project tests in a field and survey experimental framework whether and how employers screen Latino male student job applicants based on nativity and legal status for entry-level employment positions. This project includes all the instruments, protocols, documentation, and data for other scholars interested in experimental design to replicate the results, adapt them for use in other contexts, or expand them to other treatments. The project also includes other forms of writing, which will continue to be updated, for colleges, companies, and non-profit organizations to learn more about hiring rights, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the school-to-work transition.There are two main objectives for the societal impacts of this project. The first is to enable scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to easily access and utilize these documents, whether that be to adapt them for their own purpose, or expand them to other labor market, schooling, or treatment contexts. The second objective is to enable institutions of higher education, immigrant-serving organizations, companies, and students to easily learn from the results.

Funding Sources: National Science Foundation. Law and Social Sciences Program (1920714)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: discrimination; demography ; Latinx; labor; migration; stratifications; organizations

Geographic Coverage: United States, New York City, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA, Dallas, TX, Phoenix, AZ, and Los Angeles, CA

Time Period(s): 1/1/2019 – 12/31/2020 (Spring through Fall of 2019)

Collection Date(s): 1/1/2019 – 12/31/2020 (Spring through Fall of 2019)

Universe: A national sample of 468 Human Resources representatives

Data Type(s): aggregate data; program source code; survey data; text

Methodology

Response Rate: 468 HR staff in the survey and 23 respondents in the interviews

Sampling: The 468 HR staff in the survey (and 23 respondents in the interviews) were recruited alongside a larger total survey sample of 1,515 employers and interview sample of 47 employers and lawyers, including small business owners and executives, as part of a separate study.

Collection Mode(s): telephone interview; web-based survey

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