Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have … assimilation. We show that since the return to destination-specific skills increased during this period because of the very large … immigration, the assimilation curve changed its shape in a way that made it difficult to estimate even using panel data. …