RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Black Immigration, Occupational Niches, and Earnings Disparities Between U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Blacks in the United States
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 60
OP 77
DO 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.04
VO 4
IS 1
A1 Tod G. Hamilton
A1 Janeria A. Easley
A1 Angela R. Dixon
YR 2018
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/1/60.abstract
AB Using data from the 2000 U.S. census and the 2010 to 2014 waves of the American Community Survey, we examine the importance of occupational niches in explaining earnings disparities between U.S.-born blacks and black immigrants in the United States. Our results show that, relative to U.S.-born blacks, most black immigrant subgroups have similar or greater representation in occupational niches. Employment in a niche occupation has a small but positive association with earnings, and the returns to niche employment are greater for black immigrants, particularly black immigrant women. Niche employment does not, however, explain earnings disparities between U.S.-born and immigrant blacks.