Sanromá, Esteve; Ramos, Raul; Simón, Hipólito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired … assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide initial earnings gap. Recent studies (Chiswick and Miller, 2007 … advances, a process of assimilation does exist, except for Asians and, in some circumstances, those from Sub-Saharan Africa …