{"id":4460,"date":"2013-05-01T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T09:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=4460"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:36:01","slug":"stepping-stones-or-dead-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2013\/05\/01\/stepping-stones-or-dead-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Stones or Dead Ends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Ted Mouw and Sergio Chavez, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/sf.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/91\/2\/423.short\">&ldquo;Occupational Linguistic Niches and the Wage Growth of Latino Immigrants,&rdquo; <em>Social Forces<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2012<\/span><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Considered undesirable by many Americans, \u201cbrown collar\u201d jobs are those occupations with an overrepresentation of newly arrived Latino immigrants. With low pay and low status, employment in areas such as construction, hospitality, and textile production has been thought to offer few opportunities to earn better wages and learn English (which can, in turn, lead to higher wages).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Describing these workplaces as \u201clinguistic niches\u201d due to the prevalence of Spanish-speakers, Ted Mouw and Sergio Chavez\u2019s complex and novel data analysis showed that brown collar occupations are not necessarily dead end jobs. Analyzing survey and government data&#8212;even bringing in a longitudinal element that\u2019s been missing in other research&#8212;the authors found that the niches actually enabled some newly arrived immigrants to learn English while getting a foothold in the U.S. labor market.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mouw and Chavez found that, although immigrant workers initially \u201csort\u201d into brown collar jobs upon arrival to the U.S., these jobs are not detrimental to wage growth if they are used as a transition to the mainstream labor market&#8212;a feat 20% of workers are able to achieve. It\u2019ll be interesting to find out the secret to their success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Mouw and Sergio Chavez, &ldquo;Occupational Linguistic Niches and the Wage Growth of Latino Immigrants,&rdquo; Social Forces, 2012 Considered undesirable by many Americans, \u201cbrown collar\u201d jobs are those occupations with an overrepresentation of newly arrived Latino immigrants. With low pay and low status, employment in areas such as construction, hospitality, and textile production has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[20477,1005,89,37332,4208,37333],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequality","category-race","tag-economic-mobility","tag-employment","tag-immigration","tag-inequality","tag-labor-market","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8302,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/8302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}