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Using data from 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. censuses, as well as the 2010 and 2019 American Community Surveys and the 1993-2019 National Survey of College Graduates, we investigate the performance of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. labor market over the past 40 years since China initiated its...
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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previous literature. We distinguish between two types of migrants: labor and family migrants given their different labor market …. Controlling for the selective out-migration and endogeneity of labor supply, we find that labor out-migrants are positively … selected but family out-migrants are negatively selected. Furthermore, the findings underscore the importance of taking into …
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years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation …
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