abstract: 'The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of the 2007-2008

  economic and financial crisis on the levels of employment and

  unemployment of skilled migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean

  (LAC), as well as their conditions of labour insertion and levels of

  income, in order to identify patterns of occupational segregation and

  wage inequality according to their participation in the US labour

  market. This analysis was developed using a comparative perspective in

  two ways: on the one hand, comparing skilled migrants from LAC to the

  skilled migrant population from other regions of the world and to the

  native skilled population and, on the other hand, by analysing these

  indicators pre-crisis and post-crisis. The information source employed

  in this study was the March supplements of the Current Population Survey

  2006-2012. Our findings indicate that the crisis affected the entire

  skilled population in the USA and particularly the migrant population.

  This impact is stronger among LAC women because they are the ones at

  greatest disadvantage, a situation that worsened following the crisis.

  Skilled migrants from LAC are substantially more segregated on the

  occupational structure than other migrants, and they increased its

  concentration in medium-skilled occupations. The study also found that

  skilled migrants from LAC are underrepresented in professional

  occupations. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.'
affiliation: 'Gandini, L (Corresponding Author), Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Invest
  Jurid, Circuito Maestro Mario de la Cueva S-N, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico.

  Gandini, Luciana, Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Invest Jurid, Circuito Maestro
  Mario de la Cueva S-N, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico.

  Lozano-Ascencio, Fernando, Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Ctr Reg Invest Multidisciplinarias,
  Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.'
author: Gandini, Luciana and Lozano-Ascencio, Fernando
author-email: lgandini@gmail.com
author_list:
- family: Gandini
  given: Luciana
- family: Lozano-Ascencio
  given: Fernando
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1002/psp.1909
eissn: 1544-8452
files: []
issn: 1544-8444
journal: POPULATION SPACE AND PLACE
keywords: 'skilled migration; crisis and migration; occupational segregation; wage

  differentials; migration to the USA; Latin America and the Caribbean'
keywords-plus: WORK
language: English
month: JUL
number: 5, SI
number-of-cited-references: '38'
orcid-numbers: Gandini, Luciana/0000-0002-1999-4696
pages: 441-456
papis_id: 1ae7379af2c00fd36e0cc1e89ee3c2a7
ref: Gandini2016effectscrisis
times-cited: '9'
title: The Effects of the Crisis on Occupational Segregation of Skilled Migrants from
  Latin America and the Caribbean in the United States, 2006-2012
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000380012500004
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '17'
volume: '22'
web-of-science-categories: Demography; Geography
year: '2016'