. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially …-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …, black immigrants do not obtain wage assimilation equal to native-born non-Hispanic white male workers. …

the amount of time since immigration. Recent immigrants have the lowest chance of reporting most of the studied measures …

environment, with so many temporary visa holders, has led to a two-step immigration policy whereby an increasing proportion of …

inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants … American economy. In this chapter, we first place this concern in context by briefly describing the history of US immigration …, and the impact of immigration on the earnings and employment opportunities of native workers. We show that immigrants have …

during 1990 - 2002. I use this natural experiment to study labor market assimilation of migrants and their effect on the … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV …

local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are …

emphasis on their advantages and disadvantages. The recent immigration policies of a number of major immigrant … and international students is discussed, as is and the recent emergence of two-step immigration policies that favor … temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on …