Analysis of data from the 1990 Panel Study of Income Dynamics/Latino National Political Survey reveals that education, occupation, and metropolitan location had large positive effects on earnings of U.S.-born Mexican American men, but no effect for immigrants. Immigrants' earnings were affected positively by U.S. work experience and negatively by…

A study of Hispanic socioeconomic achievement in 100 mid-sized U.S. metropolitan areas found that Hispanics in areas with small Hispanic populations fared best in terms of educational attainment, employment, and income. Nevertheless, although better educated than non-Hispanics, Hispanics in areas of low Hispanic density still had lower per-capita…

Draws on the 1987 Current Population Survey to examine the effect of employment instability on earnings of 1,755 Mexican-origin men. Results show unequivocally that Whites received higher returns to education than did Mexican Americans, and that employment instability exerted a heavier penalty on Mexican-origin workers than Whites. (Author/SAS)

Analysis of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data on Hispanic men interviewed at age 14-17 and again at age 23-27 found that poverty in young adulthood was related to academic aptitude and family-of-origin socioeconomic resources during adolescence, educational and relocation decisions made during transition to adulthood, and labor market…

Relative earnings of young Mexican American workers declined during 1986-92, influenced by recession-induced changes in the U.S. earnings structure and new immigration laws. Although Mexican American females experienced significantly greater occupational segregation than males, structural changes in labor demand worked to reduce the gender…

Study results supported earlier studies which found that individuals tend to attribute internal sources of causality to their successes and external sources of causality to their failures. Students who graduated from college attributed their success to internal factors, while students who did not graduate attributed their failure to external…

Data from a national Chicano survey with nearly 1,000 respondents were examined to test the hypothesis that, because of internal (intragroup) and external (intergroup) discrimination, both past and present, Mexican Americans with a European physical appearance will have higher socioeconomic status than Mexican Americans with an indigenous Native…