Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence; Moriarty, Joan Y.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
We use Census of Population microdata for 1980 and 1990 to examine the labor supply and wages of immigrant husbands and wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment model in which, upon arrival, immigrant husbands invest...