Recent immigrants to the United States are starting their economic lives at substantially lower earnings than previous cohorts of immigrants, even after adjusting for inter-cohort differences in education. The decline in education adjusted earnings--attributed to high family admissions and...

Cross-sectional estimates of immigrant wage growth have painted an optimistic picture of the ability of immigrants to adapt to the U.S. labor market in that studies using cross-sectional data have generally found immigrant wage growth to exceed that of the native born. This optimistic picture of...

There has been an ongoing concern about the productivity of kinship-based immigrants in the U.S. labor market. Despite the policy importance of this issue, little empirical or theoretical attention has been devoted to learning the effect of different admission criteria on immigrants' economic...

This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...