http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/69478212

Chronic low income and low-income dynamics among recent immigrants

"This paper addresses three issues related to the economic welfare of immigrants. First, in the face of rapidly rising immigrant educational attainment and an increasing share of immigrants in the skilled economic class, did family economic welfare outcomes (as measured by the low-income rate) among entering immigrants improve after 2000, when macro-economic conditions were much more favorable than in the early 1990s? Second, did the probability of entering and exiting low income change significantly between 1993 and 2003 as a result of the rising educational attainment and the shift to "skilled economic class" of entering immigrants? Third, how common was chronic low income among entering immigrant cohorts? Did this change over the 1990s, and if so, how? And among which types of immigrants was chronic low income concentrated?"--Publisher's website.

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