Document Type

Report

Publication Date

1-2014

Publisher

Brookings Mountain West

First page number:

1

Last page number:

14

Abstract

Over the past two decades, Nevada’s foreign‐born Latino population has grown dramatically. As a consequence, by the end of 2011, approximately 42% of Latinos residing in Nevada had emigrated from Latin America, with over three‐fourths of the foreign‐born Latino population originating from Mexico. In part, Nevada has been attractive to Latin American immigrants (and Latinos more generally) because of the relative abundance of jobs in the state that require relatively low levels of skill and educational attainment, as well as the state’s close proximity to Arizona and California. Prior to 2008, Latino employment was concentrated in Nevada’s hospitality, construction, and retail and wholesale trade sectors, as well as other low skilled occupations. However, in the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2008, the residential home construction and hospitality sectors were hard hit, with attendant consequences for patterns of unemployment among the U.S. and foreign‐born Latino population in the state.

Keywords

Emigration and immigration; Foreign workers; Foreign workers—Education; Foreign workers—Employment; Hispanic Americans; Immigrants; Mexican Americans; Mexicans; Nevada; Unemployed; Unemployment

Disciplines

Community-Based Research | Demography, Population, and Ecology | Labor Economics | Race and Ethnicity

Language

English

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