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Country of origin and immigrant earnings,1960-2000 : a human capital investment perspective

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Marc - 2014

Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...

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De facto immigration enforcement, ICE raid awareness, and worker engagement

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Antman, Francisca M. - 2021

We explore whether fear of apprehension affects immigrants' labor market engagement by examining how ICE removals due to immigration violations and increased awareness of immigration raids impact their labor market outcomes. We find that ICE deportations are associated with reductions in the...

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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021

Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...

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Schooling and labor market effects of temporary authorization : evidence from DACA

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Antman, Francisca M. - 2016

This paper explores the labor market and schooling effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative, which provides work authorization to eligible immigrants along with a temporary reprieve from deportation. The analysis relies on a difference-in-differences approach that...

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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018

The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...

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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …

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Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm dynamics

Silliman, Mikko; Willén, Alexander - 2024

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets - immigrants and unions - to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions...

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Gender differences in the earnings mobility of migrants

Flake, Regina - 2012

This study analyzes gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants in … differences in the mobility - neither between natives and migrants nor between men and women. Second, intergenerational changes in … the relative earnings position are analyzed. These results confirm that migrants are mostly as (im)mobile as the native …

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And labor came to us : making use of an opportune workforce : enhancing migrant integration into British economy

Hack-Polay, Dieu; Mendy, John - In: Labor studies journal : official journal of United … 43 (2018) 1, pp. 29-45

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Intergenerational education mobility and labour Market outcomes : variation among the second generation of immigrants in Canada

Chen, Wen-hao; Hou, Feng - 2019

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