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Unemployment and Nonstandard Employment Among Natives and Latinos in the US and Spain

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Immigrant Vulnerability and Resilience

Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Migration ((IPMI,volume 11))

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This chapter analyzes the effects of the Great Recession on unemployment trends and working conditions of Latino immigrants, Latino naturalized citizens, and natives in the US and Spain. As in the previous chapter, we use comparable annual data from the Current Population Survey for the US and from the Economically Active Population Survey in the case of Spain. The observed trends indicate a relative increasing gap in job quality between Latino immigrants vs. natives. We also estimate and compare adjusted probabilities of unemployment as well as long term unemployment trends among the groups. The data shows strong Latino resilience against unemployment, as well as considerable job quality deterioration among workers in this group in the US. In Spain, the deep and long employment crisis has profoundly affected Latinos and their increased vulnerability is reflected in very high unemployment and long term unemployment rates.

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    Registration in municipal records does not require any legal status for immigrants and being registered in the administrative municipal records offers significant advantages for undocumented immigrants (e.g. access to education).

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  1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, USA

    María Aysa-Lastra

  2. Departamento de Sociología I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Lorenzo Cachón

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    Lorenzo Cachón

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Aysa-Lastra, M., Cachón, L. (2015). Unemployment and Nonstandard Employment Among Natives and Latinos in the US and Spain. In: Aysa-Lastra, M., Cachón, L. (eds) Immigrant Vulnerability and Resilience. International Perspectives on Migration, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14797-0_3

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