Self-Employment Concentration and Earnings among Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.

Spener, David; Bean, Frank D.

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“…Again, results are mixed. In an analysis of how group self-employment rate influenced the earnings of coethnic workers, Spener and Bean (1999) found a positive effect of Mexican self-employment on the earnings of their coethnic workers in labor markets where the size of the coethnic labor force was relatively large. However, the effect was negative in labor markets where the size of ethnic labor force was small.…”

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Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Convergencies, Controversies, and Conceptual Advancements

Zhou

2004

International Migration Review

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In the past thirty years, many concepts and theories on ethnic entrepreneurship have been developed, challenged, and revised to provide a fuller account of the phenomenon. This article revisits the existing literature to address some of the conceptual and methodological issues and the controversies that have lingered around them and to highlight important advancements that have broken through conventional frameworks of this lasting subject matter. It first reexamines the meaning and analytical distinction of such relevant concepts as the middleman minority, ethnic economy, and enclave economy, arguing that ethnic social structures in which entrepreneurs are embedded must be stressed in the understanding of these concepts. It then draws attention to the convergencies and controversies in research on the causes and consequences of entrepreneurship. Finally, it highlights two interrelated conceptual advancements in the study of ethnic entrepreneurship ‐ transnational entrepreneurship and the synergy of entrepreneurship in community building.

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Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Convergencies, Controversies, and Conceptual Advancements

Zhou

2004

International Migration Review

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“…However, these studies have mainly focused on the economic well‐being of the ethnic entrepreneur themselves. What few have investigated is whether there is any economic benefit to be derived from the concentration of coethnic entrepreneurs for immigrant workers who are not self‐employed (Spener and Bean ).…”

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“…Spener and Bean () explicitly examined the extent to which the self‐employment rate of Mexican immigrants in a metropolitan area affects the earnings of coethnic wage and salary workers utilizing the 1990 US Census data. They found that higher concentrations of Mexican self‐employment are positively related to Mexican immigrant earnings where the size of the local Spanish‐language market is considerably large.…”

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“…Some scholars argue that the existence of a sizable ethnic population is positively associated with the economic outcomes of coethnic members in a given locale (Wilson and Portes, ; Spener and Bean, ; Zhou, ). Tolnay () explored the relationship between group size and occupational status for African Americans and European immigrants in northern cities during the 1920s.…”

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Ethnic Labor Market Contexts and the Earnings of Asian Immigrants

Shin

Liang

2012

International Migration

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Our paper examines how group specific metropolitan level factors affect the earnings of six major Asian immigrant groups in the United States: Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. Drawing upon the theoretical perspectives of structural assimilation and ethnic economies, we develop several testable research hypotheses which are examined for the six Asian groups utilizing group specific multilevel regressions models. What is novel in this analysis is the comparison of the six Asian groups in different metropolitan areas in order to examine how variation in metropolitan context interacts with individual characteristics to influence individual earnings in wage or salaried occupations. The results show that the impact of metropolitan context is not uniform, but varied across and within the groups according to their different group and individual characteristics. We argue that future research strategy to establish the relationship between assimilation factors and immigrant earnings should put high priority on considering the distinctiveness of each immigrant group and the recent geographic diversification of immigrant destinations.

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“…We also test for specific conditions that may affect the economic rewards to bilingualism. These conditions could include characteristics of metropolitan labor markets, such as racial composition, ethnic concentration, and average regional wages, which have been shown to exert independent and important effects on economic outcomes, including the earnings of immigrant and minority workers (Spencer and Bean, 1999; Tienda and Lii, 1987). They also could include such personal attributes as education, given the plausible possibility that bilingualism could have a payoff for better‐educated workers that it does not have for those further down the educational ladder.…”

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The Economic Value of Bilingualism for Asians and Hispanics¹

Shin¹,

Alba

2009

Sociological Forum

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This study examines how bilingualism affects the wages of Asian and Hispanic workers using 2000 Census data. In contradiction to the general belief that bilingualism can provide a competitive advantage in the labor market, we find no evidence that 1.5‐generation and U.S.‐born Asian and Hispanic bilingual workers generally have higher wages than their English monolingual co‐ethnics; in some cases, in fact, their wages are significantly lower. In search of specific circumstances under which bilingualism might provide an economic advantage, we also examine interactions of language with such variables as education, employment in the public rather than the private sector, and the size of the population of mother‐tongue speakers. With limited exceptions, we find no sign of greater economic returns to bilingualism. Since bilingualism requires considerable effort to maintain across generations in the United States, we conclude that the virtual absence of economic rewards for it creates pressure for linguistic assimilation.

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Self-Employment Concentration and Earnings among Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.

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Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Convergencies, Controversies, and Conceptual Advancements

Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Convergencies, Controversies, and Conceptual Advancements

Ethnic Labor Market Contexts and the Earnings of Asian Immigrants

The Economic Value of Bilingualism for Asians and Hispanics¹

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Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Convergencies, Controversies, and Conceptual Advancements

Ethnic Labor Market Contexts and the Earnings of Asian Immigrants

The Economic Value of Bilingualism for Asians and Hispanics1

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