Immigrants' Employment Stability Over the Great Recession and Its Aftermath.

ABSTRACT: We examine immigrant men's employment stability during the Great Recession and its aftermath using a longitudinal approach that draws on data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a nationally representative panel survey of U.S. residents. Discrete-time event-history models are used to estimate male immigrants' relative risk of experiencing an involuntary job loss or underemployment, defined as working less than full-time involuntarily. The analysis also investigates differences in job stability by immigrant documentation status. Undocumented immigrants are identified using a logical allocation method augmented with external information about whether the respondent was successfully matched with administrative data. We find that immigrants are at significantly higher r

SUBMITTER: Tamborini CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11784598 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature