Download or read book Language and Earnings of Latinos in Florida written by Molly Dondero and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT:Language ability has assumed priority in current studies of the economic success of immigrants and minority language speakers. Past studies have shown that language ability, a key human and cultural capital trait, tends to be positively associated with earnings. Building on this past research, the goal of this study is to examine how the effect of English language proficiency on earnings of Hispanic men in Florida varies by labor market context. Specifically, it aims to compare the difference in the effect of English language proficiency on earnings in areas densely populated by Spanish speakers to the effect of language on earnings in areas dominated by English speakers. I predict that English language proficiency will have a greater impact on earnings in areas where Spanish is not widely spoken. In areas where there are large enclaves of Spanish-speakers, English will likely be a less important determinant of earnings. The effect of bilingualism on earnings is also analyzed in this manner. To test my hypotheses, my study consists of two parts: the first based on statistical analysis of US census data and the second based on qualitative interviews. Findings show that English language ability is indeed an important determinant of earnings both in areas with a high proportion of Spanish-speakers and in areas with a low proportion of Spanish-speakers. However, results from the statistical analysis show that English language ability has a greater impact on earnings in areas with a high proportion of Spanish-speakers. While English language proficiency yields greater earnings in these areas, Spanish language proficiency also has a positive effect on earnings. Fully bilingual Hispanics earn more than their English only counterparts in these areas.
Download or read book Effects of Language Characteristics on Earnings written by Walter Stewart McManus and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hispanics in Tampa written by Humberto Solis and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language Employment and Earnings in the United States written by David E. Bloom and published by Department of Economics, University of Ottawa = Dép. de science économique, Université d'Ottawa. This book was released on 1993 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes employment and earnings differentials between Spanish speakers and English speakers in the United States, using data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 U.S. censuses. The results show that Spanish speakers, both men and women, do not perform as well in the labor market as English speakers. The results also reveal that Spanish-English earnings and unemployment differentials increased slightly in the 1970s, most likely because of rapid growth in the number of Spanish speakers. By contrast, these differentials increased sharply in the 1980s, also a period of rapidly increasing supply. However, there is no evidence that the widening of differentials in the 1980s reflects an increase in the labor market rewards to English language proficiency. Rather, they appear to be the result of Spanish speakers having relatively little of those labor market characteristics, most notably education, whose market value increased dramatically during the 1980s.
Download or read book An examination of Hispanic occupational mobility wage earnings and discrimination in employment opportunities in South Florida written by Antonio Jorge and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spanish Language in the United States written by José Cobas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Language in the United States addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the United States, its racialization, and Spanish speakers’ resistance against racialization. This novel approach challenges the "foreigner" status of Spanish and shows that racialization victims do not take their oppression meekly. It traces the rootedness of Spanish since the 1500s, when the Spanish empire began the settlement of the new land, till today, when 39 million U.S. Latinos speak Spanish at home. Authors show how whites categorize Spanish speaking in ways that denigrate the non-standard language habits of Spanish speakers—including in schools—highlighting ways of overcoming racism.
Download or read book Beyond Hispanic written by Rosalie Torres Stone and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Right Before Our Eyes written by Robert Montemayor and published by Scholargy Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latino Orlando written by Simone Delerme and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the experiences of immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean Latino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come to the Orlando metropolitan area from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries. While much research on immigration focuses on urban destinations, Simone Delerme delves into a middle- and upper-class suburban context, highlighting the profound demographic and cultural transformation of an overlooked immigrant hub. Drawing on interviews, observations, fieldwork, census data, and traditional and new media, Delerme reveals the important role of real estate developers in attracting Puerto Ricans—some of the first Spanish-speaking immigrants in the region—to Central Florida in the 1970s. She traces how language became a way of racializing and segregating Latino communities, leading to the growth of suburban ethnic enclaves. She documents not only the tensions between Latinos and non-Latinos, but also the class-based distinctions that cause dissent within the Latino population. Arguing that Latino migrants are complicating racial categorizations and challenging the deep-rooted Black-white binary that has long prevailed in the American South, Latino Orlando breaks down stereotypes of neighborhood decline and urban poverty and illustrates the diversity of Latinos in the region. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Download or read book The Triennial Comprehensive Report on Immigration written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The role of language characteristics in the socioeconomic attainment process of Hispanic origin men and women written by Calvin J. Veltman and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language and Poverty written by Wayne Harbert and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the complex interactions of language with economic resources. How does poverty affect language survival? How is the economic status of individuals affected by the languages they do or do not speak? The authors address these questions from multiple perspectives, drawing on linguistics, language policy and planning, economics, anthropology, and sociology.
Download or read book Latino Americans and Their Jobs written by Thomas Arkham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, people of all different backgrounds live together. Today, more than one in eight people in the United States are Hispanic, and Latino communities are an important part America. Hispanic Americans are people from different lands, cultures, and backgrounds. Many come to the United States looking for better jobs—and some of them find them. No matter where Hispanic Americans came from originally, the longer they live in the United States, the better jobs they are likely to have. As they live in their new homes longer, they learn the language better; they make connections that can lead to job opportunities; and they gain a better understanding of what they have to offer in the work world. As you read the stories of individual Hispanic Americans, you will gain a better understanding of what it means to be a Latino in today's work world.
Download or read book Hispanics in the U S Economy written by George J. Borjas and published by Orlando : Academic Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by Commission on Spanish Speaking Populace of Florida and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hispanic Market Handbook written by M. Isabel Valdés and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1995 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to understanding, reaching, and selling to Hispanic Americans. This volume provides background informaton, demographics and behavioural characteristics of major groups within this diverse market. Current case studies are included in this work.
Download or read book Latinos Inc written by Arlene Dávila and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Hollywood and corporate America are taking note of the marketing power of the growing Latino population in the United States. And as salsa takes over both the dance floor and the condiment shelf, the influence of Latin culture is gaining momentum in American society as a whole. Yet the increasing visibility of Latinos in mainstream culture has not been accompanied by a similar level of economic parity or political enfranchisement. In this important, original, and entertaining book, Arlene Dávila provides a critical examination of the Hispanic marketing industry and of its role in the making and marketing of U.S. Latinos. Dávila finds that Latinos' increased popularity in the marketplace is simultaneously accompanied by their growing exotification and invisibility. She scrutinizes the complex interests that are involved in the public representation of Latinos as a generic and culturally distinct people and questions the homogeneity of the different Latino subnationalities that supposedly comprise the same people and group of consumers. In a fascinating discussion of how populations have become reconfigured as market segments, she shows that the market and marketing discourse become important terrains where Latinos debate their social identities and public standing.
