Download or read book Poles and Italians Then, Mexicans Now? written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, presents the full text of the February 2002 working paper entitled "Poles and Italians then, Mexicans Now? Immigrant-to-Native Wage Ratios, 1910 and 1940," written by Joel Perlmann. Perlmann compares the skills level of immigrants entering the United States between 1910 and 1940 with those currently moving to the country. Perlmann includes a comparison of immigrant-native earnings ratios in 1910 and today.