讲座名称：走出唐人街：近年来美国华人移民就业的新趋势

                 From Chinatown to Every Town: New Patterns of Employment for

                 Low-skilled Chinese Immigrants in the United States*

讲 座 人： 梁在  教授

讲座时间：2015年12月16日（周三）中午12：30

讲座地点：东二楼实证所会议室（东333）

讲座摘要：Building on the growing literature on new immigrant destinations, this paper examines new employment patterns of low skilled Chinese immigrants in the United States.  We identify an important channel of employment in new destinations for the case of Chinese low skilled immigrants: employment agencies in New York City’s Chinatown.   We carried out two surveys of employment agencies in 2010-2011. Our findings suggest that there has been a profound change in settlement patterns of low skilled immigrants: moving away from traditional Chinatowns in major American cities toward non-gateway destinations and rural areas.  These new settlement locations are characterized by low unemployment rate and low crime rate.  Contrary to predictions from ethnic economy perspective, Chinese restaurant jobs tend not to be located in places with high concentration of Chinese immigrants, but rather in places with high proportion of non-Hispanic whites. In addition, the further the jobs are away from New York City, the higher the salary.   We discuss the implications of this fundamental change for re-conceptualization of immigrant labor market and immigrant socioeconomic mobility in the American society.