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Earnings gap, cohort effect and economic assimilation of immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Lin, Carl - 2013

Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been escalating in contrast to other immigrants. I show these...

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Low-skilled immigrants and the US labor market

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2011

. -- immigrant labor ; assimilation ; generational progress …

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Do foreigners crowd natives out of STEM degrees and occupations? : evidence from the U.S. immigration act of 1990

Ransom, Tyler; Winters, John V. - 2016

This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree completion and labor market outcomes for native-born Americans. The Act increased the in-flow and stock of foreign STEM workers in the U.S., both by increasing green...

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How immigration reduced social capital in the US : 2005-2011

Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - 2013

Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...

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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives

Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005- 2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...

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Immigration and trade creation for the US : the role of immigrant occupation

Mundra, Kusum - 2012

varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending … countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the immigrant trade elasticity for the no occupation group is similar … in magnitude to the immigrant effect on trade estimated in the literature. However, this does not capture the full extent …

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How do immigrants from Taiwan fare in the US labor market?

Lin, Carl - 2013

This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...

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Low-Skilled Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market

Duncan, Brian - 2011

Over the last several decades, two of the most significant developments in the U.S. labor market have been: (1) rising inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants arrive with very low levels of schooling, English...

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The Labor Market Effects of English Language Proficiency : Communication Skills and the Occupational Choice of Childhood Immigrants to the United States

Hlavac, Marek - 2013

I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...

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The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States

Friedberg, Rachel M. - 2009

immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and …

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