The Washington Times (8/20, Miller) reports, "Newly arrived Hispanic immigrant workers bring down the wages of their working-class native and established-immigrant peers, according to a report based on 1990 census data. The researcher said the 13-year-old data was the most recent and complete information available, but other analysts said the study failed to reflect an economy that has evolved along with the influx of both legal and illegal immigrants through the prosperous 1990s. The report released by Lisa Catanzarite with the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California at Los Angeles, found that men, both native and established immigrants, earned an average of 11 percent less than others in blue-collar jobs when they worked alongside recently arrived Hispanics. The higher the number of newly arrived Hispanic men on the job, the less money the other workers tended to make, the research found. The study scrutinized data on male workers in 38 US cities, including New York, San Diego and Washington." The study reports, "Results show that in occupations with many newcomer Latino incumbents, other workers earn lower wages than would be expected. That is, there are substantial wage penalties in local brown-collar occupations; significantly larger penalties for minorities than for whites; and reduced monetary returns to schooling in brown-collar fields." The study recommends, "expanding worker protections for the immigrants, enforcing minimum-wage standards and extending amnesty."
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