Mexican Population Research Paper

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The Mexican population has increase so rapidly that it is now one of the biggest group population it went from 92 million to 281.4 million, in just 90 years from 1910 to 2000. In the past decade the Mexican population has increased four tomes faster than the overall us total population. Only few ethnic groups in the nation can match this growth. This huge growth boom is casued by these three reasons. The first reason is because of Mexican tend to be young compared to others. The second being that Mexicans have a higher fertility rate, and the third being that the Mexican population has been supplemented by large flows of immigrants both legal and illegal especially since the 1960. According to the US Census Bureau immigrants make up of two-thirds …show more content…
Mexican men were disadvantage in terms of educational attainment relative to white men. Nearly half of Mexican-origin men had twelve years or less of schooling, whereas less than one-tenth of white men had such a low level of attainment. The high school completion gap between Mexican-origin and white men seems to be narrowing the rates were 28.6 percent and 31.2 percent, but college rates seem to remain miserably low for Mexicans. Mexican men between the ages of sixteen and twenty-nine were slightly more vulnerable to be underemployed relative to white men. The result for education were more telling, however the lack of education renders Mexican workers susceptible to underemployment, an example of this is a poorly educated Mexican men were 2.1 time more likely to be underemployed, but white males with the same level of schooling were only 1.9 times as likely to be underemployed. The interesting part is that the odd for a white male with a high school diploma to face underemployment is lower then his peer who does not have a diploma, however this same relationship does not apply to Mexicans with a highs school diploma, in fact the results are not statistically significant. They are 1.6 times more likely to be underemployed than their peers who were born in the united states. Mexican workers who work in the industrial sector of employment face the highest odds of underemployment. The end result show that personal and job characteristics do not offer Mexican the same protection from underemployment that white workers have. For instances, in each occupational category Mexicans were more prone to be underemployed than their white counterparts. This suggests that Mexican worker are treated less favorably in the labor work force compared to white men. So, to