ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a statistical portrait of Hispanics in the American labor market. The very rapid increase in the Hispanic population of the United States in recent decades has been due, in large part, to the large and increasing Hispanic immigration. 1 The different circumstances that immigrants experience in the United States compared to persons born in this country require that a study of Hispanics in the U.S. labor market consider differences by nativity. In addition, it is important to recognize that Hispanics are not necessarily a homogeneous group. Although Hispanics have a common linguistic origin or region of origin, the major groups of Hispanics are quite different in many important characteristics, including how they came to live in the United States, where they live, their fertility rates, and so on. This chapter evaluates differences in the characteristics of Hispanics that are relevant for the labor market.
