abstract: 'We demonstrate that Mexicans and Central Americans legalized through he

  1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act suffer a substantial pay penalty

  for working at jobsites where co-ethnics predominate, above and beyond

  the influences of low levels of human capital, employment in informal or

  secondary sector jobs, or in less-skilled occupations. Utilizing the

  1992 Legalized Population Survey, we regress wages on individual, job,

  and occupational characteristics. These models demonstrate a sizable,

  negative effect of employment in a Latino ghetto, which outweighs the

  effects of many years of education, labor force experience, or job

  tenure. Most of the respondents work at jobsites saturated with

  co-ethnics, and such segregation puts them at a pronounced monetary

  disadvantage. We argue that policies to improve immigrant Latinos'' labor

  market outcomes must move beyond prescriptions for enhancing workers''

  human capital to address structural factors that contribute to

  underpayment at Latino jobsites.'
affiliation: 'Catanzarite, L (Corresponding Author), Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Sociol,
  9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.

  Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Sociol, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.

  SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA.'
author: Catanzarite, L and Aguilera, MB
author_list:
- family: Catanzarite
  given: L
- family: Aguilera
  given: MB
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1525/sp.2002.49.1.101
files: []
issn: 0037-7791
journal: SOCIAL PROBLEMS
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET EXPERIENCES; NEW-YORK-CITY; SEX SEGREGATION; UNITED-STATES;

  WAGE GAP; OCCUPATIONS; ECONOMY; WOMEN; COMPETITION; ENCLAVES'
language: English
month: FEB
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '85'
pages: 101-127
papis_id: 4e4bc64bfd4f6785867960c07eaabe88
ref: Catanzarite2002workingcoethnics
times-cited: '76'
title: 'Working with co-ethnics: Earnings penalties for Latino immigrants at Latino
  jobsites'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000174752600006
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '13'
volume: '49'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2002'