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Article: The diversity of Hispanics in the U.S. work force.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 1993
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Hispanics have immigrated from different countries at different times, for different reasons, and have settled in various parts of the United States; this diversity is reflected in their labor force characteristics
Persons of Hispanic origin make up one of the fastest growing worker groups in the United States. Their number - 10.1 million in 1992 - has increased 65 percent since 1980, a rate of growth 4 times that for the non-Hispanic work force. A heterogeneous population, Hispanics represent many nationalities and ethnicities, including Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, persons from 15 Central and South American countries, Spain, and the Dominican Republic. (See ...