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View Resource Poles and Italians then, Mexicans Now? Immigrant-to-Native Wage Ratios, 1910 and 1940

In this working paper, Joel Perlmann, Levy Institute Research Professor of History at Bard College, examines whether today's Mexican immigrants will be as successful as past immigrants in "catching up" with the native American population. According to the report, Mexicans comprise the largest immigrant group in this country and are the prime example of a migrant group entering American society at...

http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp343.pdf