Colorism and immigrant earnings in the United States, 2015–2024
Using data from the Current Populations Survey 2015–2024 matched to skin color data in the New Immigrant Survey, this article shows that immigrants from countries with darker skin color face a substantial earnings penalty. The penalty is similar to that found using 2003 data on individual immigrants...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | Joni Hersch |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2024-11-01
|
| Series: | Frontiers in Sociology |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1494236/full |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Similar Items
-
Changing self-identification among immigrants in the United States
by: Ina Chen, et al.
Published: (2025-05-01) -
Cumulative earnings of Black, Chinese, South Asian and White individuals born in Canada
by: Aneta Bonikowska, et al.
Published: (2024-11-01) -
MST-AI: Skin Color Estimation in Skin Cancer Datasets
by: Vahid Khalkhali, et al.
Published: (2025-07-01) -
From Accounting to Economics: The Role of Earning Reporting Features in The Relationship between Aggregated Earnings and GDP
by: Iraj Mirhosseini, et al.
Published: (2024-02-01) -
Persistence and Predictive Ability of Earnings: Evidence from France and the UK
by: Kimouche Bilal
Published: (2021-01-01)