Thesis Submission Date
Spring 2012
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
Reader 1
S. Brock Blomberg
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© 2012 Emma Grave McConville
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Abstract
This study aims to measure the wage gap between the white and Mexican population residing in the United States. It also looks at male and female first- and second-and-higher generations in both white and Mexican populations. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) is used for the years 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010. This study finds that first-generation white males are negatively affected by the wage gap, while second-and-higher-generation Mexican females have continuously benefited from the wage gap over the past thirty years.
Recommended Citation
McConville, Emma Grace, "The Wage Gap Between First- and Second-and-Higher-Generation White and Mexican Immigrants" (2012). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 356.
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/356