Puerto Rican Experience Research Articles

Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class.

Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class.Bonnie Urduoli. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. xiv, 222 pp.

Toward a definition of a Latino family research paradigm

This paper analyzes some of the methodological requisites for a Latino qualitative family research paradigm. The paper explores the philosophical underpinnings, purposes, parameters, and influences of the role of the researcher. Elements of critical race theory, feminist standpoint theory, and Puerto Rican culture and experience are incorporated in the development of the paradigm. Thus, the framework reveals an epistemology that is sensitive to Latino cultural knowledge production and holds an explicit social objective to challenge existing structures, that is, to produce knowledge that presents Latinos as active agents facing constraints or exhibiting resistence behaviors within a social structure. The framework's parameters outline the boundaries all Latino groups share in the United States, such as bicultural identity, Spanish language, and cultural citizenship. The researcher's influence is examined from a Latina (Puerto Rican female) perspective to find some of the continuities and discontinuities that may influence the inherent power dynamic within the researcher informant relationship.

Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class

* Introduction: The Semiotics of Exclusion * Racialization and Language * Visions of Disorder: How Puerto Ricans Became Racialized * The Political Topography of Bilingualism * Good English as Symbolic Capital * The Race/Class/Language Map * Epilog

Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class

Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class. Bonnie Urciuoli. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 222 pp.

Exposing prejudice: Puerto Rican experiences of language, race, and class

Exposing prejudice: Puerto Rican experiences of language, race, and class

The Dynamics of Minimum Wage Policy in Economic Development: A Multiple Time-Series Approach

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Dynamics of Minimum Wage Policy in Economic Development: A Multiple Time-Series ApproachCarlos E. SantiagoCarlos E. Santiago Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 38, Number 1Oct., 1989 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/451773 Views: 12Total views on this site Citations: 7Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1989 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Shanthi Nataraj, Francisco Perez-Arce, Krishna B. Kumar, Sinduja V. Srinivasan THE IMPACT OF LABOR MARKET REGULATION ON EMPLOYMENT IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES: A META-ANALYSIS, Journal of Economic Surveys 28, no.33 (Aug 2013): 551–572.https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12040Shanthi Nataraj, Francisco Perez-Arce, Sinduja Srinivasan, Krishna Kumar What is the Impact of Labour Market Regulation on Employment in LICs? How Does it Vary by Gender?, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2012).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2127434Jean-Paul Azam Efficiency Wage and the Family: An Explanation for the Impact of the Agricultural Minimum Wage in Morocco, Kyklos 50, no.33 (Dec 2004): 369–382.https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6435.00021Andrew R. Morrison Are institutions or economic rents responsible for interindustry wage differentials?, World Development 22, no.33 (Mar 1994): 355–368.https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X(94)90127-9Carlos E. Santiago The Migratory Impact of Minimum Wage Legislation: Puerto Rico, 1970–1987 , International Migration Review 27, no.44 (Jun 2018): 772–795.https://doi.org/10.1177/019791839302700403BOBBY E. APOSTOLAKIS Warfare-Welfare Expenditure Substitutions in Latin America, 1953-87, Journal of Peace Research 29, no.11 (Feb 1992): 85–98.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343392029001007Carlos E. Santiago Wage Policies, Employment, and Puerto Rican Migration, (Jan 1991): 225–245.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0655-7_11

Policy intervention and forecasting: An application to minimum wages

This paper examines the forecasting implications of incorporating policy effects into the structure of unconditional time series models. The forecasting model is applied to the Puerto Rican experience with minimum wages from 1953 to 1982. The empirical results suggest that significant disemployment and unemployment followed the imposition of economy-wide minimum wages in 1974. The growth of employment suffered and the aggregate unemployment rate reached an unprecedented level. Multivariate time-series models for the employment-population ratio and the unemployment rate capture these effects well. They also forecast more accurately than unvariate and intervention models over the ex post period, 1983–1984. It is argued that models that combine subject matter-specific structure within a dynamic time-series framework greatly help to satisfy demands for theoretical consistency and forecast accuracy. Multivariate time-series models play an important complementary role in the structural modelling of economic policy analysis. This is particularly so when limitations of either data or theory preclude complete specification of structural equations.

Home Ownership Differences between Hispanics and Anglos in the United States

While recent work points to home ownership as a key factor in the exacerbation and perpetuation of racial/ethnic inequality, no research has studied Hispanic/Anglo differences in home ownership. I use data from the 1981 Annual Housing Survey to examine Hispanic/Anglo differences in home ownership net of socioeconomic characteristics, life-cycle factors, and geographic location. I also assess the differential effects of these determinants on the probability of home ownership between Anglos and each of the five major Hispanic subpopulations. The results demonstrate that Hispanics are significantly less likely to own homes than comparable Anglos. Moreover, Cubans, Central or South Americans, and Puerto Ricans experience much greater inequality in the probability of home ownership than Mexican Americans, Other Hispanics, or blacks. These findings point to the importance of incorporating home ownership into the study of economic inequality.

The U.S. Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Puerto Rican Experience

The Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), officially the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (Public Law 98-67, Title II), announced by President Ronald Reagan in February 1982, became law on August 5, 1983, and has been in effect since January 1984. The CBI constitutes thus far the major attempt by the U.S. government to provide an economic component to its policy in the Caribbean Basin. The approval of the CBI provides the legal framework for the implementation of special economic measures designed to foster closer economic relations among the United States and the Caribbean Basin countries and to shape and influence the policies to be followed by the countries of the region in solving their economic crises. The measures to be implemented under the programs of the CBI are a function of U.S. interests in the region and are designed to foster an economic development model congruent with those interests. Although it has never been publicly stated, the underlying model for the CBI is Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap-that is, an export-oriented industrial development model fostered by a strong injection of U.S. investments. Curiously, as has been pointed out by Rodriguez Beruff (1983: 7), the Puerto Rican experience under Oper-

Spanish and English in contact in the United States: The Puerto Rican experience

(1982). Spanish and English in contact in the United States: The Puerto Rican experience. WORD: Vol. 33, Spanish in the Western Hemisphere, In Contact With English, Portuguese, and the Amerindian Languages, pp. 41-57.

Control of schistosomiasis: the Puerto Rican experience.

Abstract Following the discovery of Schistosomiusis mansoni on the island of Puerto Rico in 1904, studies based on fecal samples were done to determine the extent of the problem. By 1953 a Bilharzia Control Unit had been established within the Puerto Rico Department of Health and a snail control project was instituted in an attempt to disrupt the transmission cycle of the schistosome parasite. Considerable attention was given to the study of the ecologies of transmission foci in order to better understand the interrelationships among people, snails, and schistosomes. During the 1960s the useful but limited method of fecal sampling was replaced by the intradermal skin test using schistosome antigen. Three surveys using the intradermal test had been carried out by 1976. and they revealed a changing pattern in the prevalence of schistosomiasis on the island. The various control programs and social factors responsible for this shift are assessed in terms of their contributions to the total program of control. Unlike many other control programs, the Puerto Rican effort has not stressed chemotherapy but rather has relied on measures such as snail control, improvements in water supplies, and better sanitation. Since the initial intradermal test of 1963, prevalence of schistosomiasis has declined from 12% to approximately 5% in 1976. While undeniably successful, the continuance of snail control as a major factor in the total control program is questionable, as cost analyses indicate that new chemotherapeutic measures might do the job more quickly and cheaply than snail control.

The Lash of Inflation on a Developing Economy: Puerto Rico, A Case Study

This article discusses the social effects of inflation in a developing economy, based primarily on the Puerto Rican experience. The first part covers some pertinent general notions concerning inflation and economic development. The relationships among Puerto Rico's unique socio-political conditions, the economic achievements attained, and the social changes experienced throughout the years of relative economic stability from World War II to 1973 are then presented. As a sequel in the discussion, it shall examine the 1974 inflationary period and the recession that followed, from which the Island is not still fully recovered, as well as the inflationary trend that has prevailed since 1978, and the difficulties that the economy is now experiencing. The article delves into factors that have accounted for the reversal in the Island's development trend and emphasizes its increasing dependence on external capital, United States' markets, and federal transfers payments. Finally, the social effects that have been observed and/or are anticipated as a result of the level of inflation that has prevailed in the economy in the last four years and the measures that are being proposed as a part of President Reagan's economic plan to curb inflation are pondered.

Labor Migration under Capitalism: The Puerto Rican Experience.

Labor Migration under Capitalism: The Puerto Rican Experience.

Global Capital, Global Labor Force

Review of Labor Migration Under Capitalism: The Puerto Rican Experience by History Task Force of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Marketing strategy for economic development: The Puerto Rican experience: By Gordon A. DiPaolo. Nellen Publishing Company, Inc. (386 Park Avenue South, New York City 10016, USA), 1976, 144 pp. $3.95

Marketing strategy for economic development: The Puerto Rican experience: By Gordon A. DiPaolo. Nellen Publishing Company, Inc. (386 Park Avenue South, New York City 10016, USA), 1976, 144 pp. $3.95

Book Review: Marketing Strategy for Economic Development: The Puerto Rican Experience

Book Review: Marketing Strategy for Economic Development: The Puerto Rican Experience

Marketing Strategy for Economic Development: The Puerto Rican Experience

Marketing Strategy for Economic Development: The Puerto Rican Experience

Book Review: The Puerto Rican Experience: A Sociological Sourcebook

Book Review: The Puerto Rican Experience: A Sociological Sourcebook

Evaluation of BCG vaccination among Puerto Rican children.

In 1949-51 a clinical trial of BCG vaccine was conducted among 191827 children in Puerto Rico 1-18 years of age. The trial was designed to simulate a mass vaccination campaign. Follow-up was continued until 1969. Among the 1976 tuberculosis cases estimated to have occurred without vaccination 29% were nonreactors to 10 TU of tuberculin and thus were eligible for vaccination. The average annual tuberculosis rate was 27.6/100000 among controls and 19.7/100000 among vaccinees a reduction of 28.7%. However the overall reduction in tuberculosis that would have resulted from a complete vaccination program was less than 9%. Vaccination did not reduce the severity of cases that occurred among nonreactors. The reduction in tuberculosis attributable to vaccination showed only minor variations by age race and urban versus rural residence; however BCG effectiveness was significantly greater among males than females. Screening with 100 TU of tuberculin would not have resulted in a significantly different estimate of the effectiveness of BCG. It is noted that high tuberculosis case rates and low risks of acquiring new infections can coexist in the same population. In such circumstances BCG vaccination can do little good and can actually do harm by interfering with the identification of infected persons. The Puerto Rican experience demonstrates the need to estimate as carefully as possible the actual risk of infection before a vaccination campaign is commenced.

The Puerto Rican Experience: A Sociological Sourcebook.

The Puerto Rican Experience: A Sociological Sourcebook.