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Black Immigration, Occupational Niches, and Earnings Disparities Between U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Blacks in the United States

Tod G. Hamilton, Janeria A. Easley, Angela R. Dixon
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2018, 4 (1) 60-77; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.04
Tod G. Hamilton
aAssistant professor of sociology and faculty associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University
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Janeria A. Easley
bPostdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
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Angela R. Dixon
cGraduate student in the Department of Sociology and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University
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vol. 4 no. 1 60-77
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.04

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2377-8253
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  • Published online January 1, 2018.

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© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Hamilton, Tod G., Janeria A. Easley, and Angela R. Dixon. 2018. “Black Immigration, Occupational Niches, and Earnings Disparities Between U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Blacks in the United States.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(1): 60–77. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.04. We thank participants in the “New Immigrant U.S. Labor Market Niches in the Era of Globalization” conference for their comments and suggestions and the Russell Sage Foundation for its support of the project. Support for our research was provided by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (P2CHD047879, T32HD007163). Direct correspondence to: Tod G. Hamilton at todh@princeton.edu, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, 128 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544; Janeria A. Easley at jeasley@sas.upenn.edu, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, McNeil Building, Suite 113, Philadelphia, PA 19104; and Angela R. Dixon at angelad@princeton.edu, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Tod G. Hamiltona,
  2. Janeria A. Easleyb and
  3. Angela R. Dixonc
  1. aAssistant professor of sociology and faculty associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University
  2. bPostdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
  3. cGraduate student in the Department of Sociology and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University
  1. Corresponding authors:
    Tod G. Hamilton, (todh{at}princeton.edu); Janeria A. Easley, (jeasley{at}sas.upenn.edu); Angela R. Dixon, (angelad{at}princeton.edu)
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