The Industrial Division of Labor Among Immigrants and Internal Migrants to the Los Angeles Economy

Date: May 1, 1997

Publication: Working paper for Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

Between 1985-90, the Los Angeles CMSA received about 400,000 working immigrants and about 575,000 working native in-migrants. We subdivide these native- and foreign-born migrants by national origin and race to examine the processes that channel recent arrivals into different industrial sectors.