Studying labor market data for U.S. foreign born workers

Detailed data and the underlying micro data can be found at;

http://www.census.gov/population/foreign/

Two sources of information are:

Current Population Survey Data on the Foreign-Born Population

Detailed tables on the foreign-born population in the United States from the Current Population Survey shown by a wide range of characteristics including age, sex, marital status, employment status, occupation, industry, income, earnings, poverty status, household type, size and tenure, and metropolitan status

http://www.census.gov/population/foreign/data/cps.html

American Community Survey Data on the Foreign-Born Population

http://www.census.gov/population/foreign/data/acs.html

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Dwight Steward, Ph.D.

Dr. Steward regularly writes and speaks on topics involving business and individual economic damages, employment audits, and the analysis of payroll and time data in wage and hour investigations. Dr. Steward has also held teaching positions at The University of Texas-Austin in the Department of Economics and in the Red McCombs School of Business, The College of Business at Sam Houston State University, and at The University of Iowa. He has taught numerous courses in statistics, corporate finance, labor economics, business policies, managerial economics, and microeconomics.