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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002

Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education (relative to native-born women), and income (relative to native-born women) than do U.S. female immigrants. A prominent explanation for this skill deficit of U.S....

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Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market

Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican … assimilation, my estimates indicate that a discrete jump in earnings and the wage structure occurs between the first and second … fluency that occur between the second and third generations do not appear to raise the earnings of Mexican Americans any …

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How do immigrants spend their time? The process of assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2010

Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation - what immigrants do with their...

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Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Kuhn, Peter; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2003

How do international differences in labor market institutions affect the nature of immigrant earnings assimilation … wage assimilation is an important source of immigrant earnings growth in both Canada and the United States, but the …

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