The Immigrant Woman: Double Cost or Relative Improvement?

Abstract

Women and immigrants each play an increasingly important role in the labor force, yet both are given to claims of being in an econo? mically disadvantaged position and of being overrepresented in the labor at the lower end of the occupational status scale (Richmond and Verma 1978).2 Workers in the secondary labor market are often bound into a vicious circle in which their low-status