Sasson, Isaac and Sakamoto, Arthur (2012) Non-poor components of population growth and immigration in the U.S., 1990-2010. Social Indicators Research, 115 (1). pp. 183-201. ISSN 0303-8300
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Traditional measures of poverty are informative in indicating the degree of economic deprivation in a population at a cross-sectional point in time, but they do not consider growth in the size of the non-poverty population. We develop a measure of nonpoverty population growth in order to explore whether it constitutes a useful indicator of an important demographic dynamic. We illustrate our approach with an analysis of the U.S. states using Census and American Community Survey data from 1990, 2000, and 2010. The results indicate that the extent to which the non-poor population increased across states is uncorrelated with the initial poverty rate as conventionally measured. Broken down by nativity, the findings further show that some states with official poverty rates above the national average (e.g., Arizona, Georgia, and Texas) nonetheless had some of the highest rates of non-poor population growth among less skilled immigrants. By contrast, other states with official poverty rates below the national average (e.g., Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont) often had low rates of non-poor population growth among less skilled immigrants. These findings suggest that low initial poverty rates do not necessarily contribute substantially to the alleviation of global poverty through the immigration of less skilled persons from less developed nations. However, the rate of non-poor population growth among less skilled immigrants also appears to be uncorrelated with state variation in minimum wages even after taking into account population density and median home value.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/journal/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2016 15:33 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2024 05:35 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/65186 |
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