Hispanics and the American Dream: An Analysis of Hispanic Male Labor Market Wages1940-1980. The Emerging Hispanic Underclass

摘要

The document is a two-part report on research on the labor market performance ofminority men. It documents and analyzes the disparity in labor market performance, in terms of wages and wage gap, of Hispanic males vis a vis other racial groups. The first part traces and analyzes the long-term changes in the Hispanic-white wage gap and wage performance. The second part focuses on more recent periods, the 1970s and 1980s, and examines the relative labor market performance of the Hispanic men.