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The effects of immigrant Hispanic labor on the earnings of first-, second-, & third-generation US-born Hispanic Ms are investigated via analysis of data from the 15% 1:100 Public Use Sample of the 1970 US Census. Analyses using two ordinary least squares models -- labor demand & human capital -- of wage determination indicate that immigrant labor has a small but positive effect on native Hispanic earnings; a complementary rather than competitive relationship appears to exist between the two groups. Implications of the findings for studying the effects of undocumented immigration are explored. 4 Tables, 23 References. K. Hyatt

Based on Warren and Passel's (1984) estimate that nearly two-thirds of Mexican-born noncitizens entering the U.S. during 1975–80 and included in the 1980 Census are undocumented immigrants, this article uses the 1980 Public Use Microfiles to delineate four Mexican origin immigrant status groups — post 1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, pre-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, self-reported naturalized citizens, and native-born Mexican Americans. The pattern of sociodemographic differences among these groups provides support for the idea that the first two categories contain a substantial fraction of undocumented immigrants. These two groups (especially the first) reveal characteristics that one would logically associate with undocumented immigrants — age concentration (in young adult years), high sex ratios, low education and income levels, and lack of English proficiency.

Because Moynihan's 1965 report (in)famously emphasized the need to change black family culture to ameliorate black poverty, his work holds relevance for understanding factors affecting color lines. The implications of recent immigration for U.S. race relations depend on family cultural orientations among Mexican Americans, as well as on how Anglos culturally perceive this group. Mexican-origin family behaviors are often reified as either being unduly familistic or largely governed by culture of poverty tendencies. Here, we review research suggesting that neither of these is accurate, thus indicating that future Mexican-origin economic advancement is as likely to turn on the availability of structural opportunities as on cultural factors. In-depth interviews with Anglos further suggest that Mexican-origin persons are culturally viewed with less prejudice and discrimination than blacks, which implies that the integration of Mexican-origin persons into American society (unlike that of blacks) is progressing at a steady if not rapid pace. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

Because Moynihan's 1965 report (in)famously emphasized the need to change black family culture to ameliorate black poverty, his work holds relevance for understanding factors affecting color lines. The implications of recent immigration for U.S. race relations depend on family cultural orientations among Mexican Americans, as well as on how Anglos culturally perceive this group. Mexican-origin family behaviors are often reified as either being unduly familistic or largely governed by culture of poverty tendencies. Here, we review research suggesting that neither of these is accurate, thus indicating that future Mexican-origin economic advancement is as likely to turn on the availability of structural opportunities as on cultural factors. In-depth interviews with Anglos further suggest that Mexican-origin persons are culturally viewed with less prejudice and discrimination than blacks, which implies that the integration of Mexican-origin persons into American society (unlike that of blacks) is progressing at a steady if not rapid pace.

After developing a classification of metropolitan areas, O. D. Duncan et al. (METROPOLIS AND REGION, Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins Press, 1960) noted that had the classification system "been available at the beginning...it would have been possible to explore inter-category diff's systematically in connection with each body of data analyzed." Precisely this type of analysis is conducted in this paper. The classification system is taken as given, & re-examination of the underlying variables is performed via multiple discriminant analysis, in an attempt to assess the extent to which they account for the classification in a more systematic sense. It is found that the variables most important in defining the signif discriminant functions largely substantiate the heavy reliance in METROPOLIS AND REGION upon certain variables as initial bases of classification. The results of this analysis also suggest that the multiple discriminant technique may be more generally useful in soc sci res than has presently been the case. AA.