Data and Code for: Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns Over Time and Across Generations

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Francisca M. Antman, University of Colorado-Boulder; Brian Duncan, University of Colorado Denver; Stephen J. Trejo, University of Texas-Austin

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Project Citation:

Antman, Francisca M., Duncan, Brian, and Trejo, Stephen J. Data and Code for: Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns Over Time and Across Generations. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-01-31. https://doi.org/10.3886/E183164V1

Project Description

Summary: This article reviews evidence on the labor market performance of Hispanics in the United States, with a particular focus on the US-born segment of this population. After discussing critical issues that arise in the US data sources commonly used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics currently compare with other Americans in terms of education, earnings, and labor supply, and then we discuss long-term trends in these outcomes. Relative to non-Hispanic Whites, US-born Hispanics from most national origin groups possess sizeable deficits in earnings, which in large part reflect corresponding educational deficits. Over time, rates of high school completion by US-born Hispanics have almost converged to those of non-Hispanic Whites, but the large Hispanic deficits in college completion have instead widened. Finally, from the perspective of immigrant generations, Hispanics experience substantial improvements in education and earnings between first-generation immigrants and the second-generation consisting of the US-born children of immigrants. Continued progress beyond the second generation is obscured by measurement issues arising from high rates of Hispanic intermarriage and the fact that later-generation descendants of Hispanic immigrants often do not self-identify as Hispanic when they come from families with mixed ethnic origins.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Hispanic; Immigrant; Assimilation; Earnings; Education

JEL Classification:
      I24 Education and Inequality
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1970 – 2000 (U.S. Census); 2006 – 2019 (American Community Survey); 2003 – 2019 (U.S. Current Population Survey )

Collection Date(s): 11/25/2022 – 11/25/2022 (Extracted from IPUMS)

Universe:

Individuals aged 18 through 59 in the 1970-2000 Census and 2006-2019 American Community Survey microdata.
Individuals aged 25 through 59 in the 2003-2019 Current Population Survey basic monthly microdata.

Data Type(s): survey data

Collection Notes: All data was obtained from ipums.org

Methodology

Data Source:

1970-2000 Census microdata, 5% Sample.

2006-2019 American Community Survey microdata.

2003-2019 Current Population Survey basic monthly microdata.

Unit(s) of Observation: Individual

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