caa a22 4500 397524536 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19951101xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3097045 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/3097045 Model Suzanne University of Massachusetts, Amherst West Indian Prosperity: Fact or Fiction? [Elektronische Daten] [Suzanne Model] Both scholars and the public often express the opinion that, in the United States, West Indian Blacks are more economically successful than African Americans. This paper explores two dimensions of this hypothesis, labor force participation and earnings, for residents of the New York SMSA in 1970, 1980, and 1990. The outcomes of West Indian men and women, both foreign and native born, are compared to African American men and women. The results show West Indians typically have higher labor force participation, but earnings display a more complex pattern. Other things equal, the earnings of the foreign born surpass African American earnings only after the immigrants have spent some years in the United States, while the earnings of nativeborn West Indians are usually higher than those of native Blacks. These results are most consonant with the theory that immigrants are a positively selected population. © 1995 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. Social Structure and Poverty nationallicence Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/4(1995-11-01), 535-553 0037-7791 42:4<535 1995 42 socpro https://doi.org/10.2307/3097045 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3097045 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Model Suzanne University of Massachusetts, Amherst NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/4(1995-11-01), 535-553 0037-7791 42:4<535 1995 42 socpro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford