Economic Assimilation and Skill Acquisition: Evidence From the Occupational Sorting of Childhood Immigrants
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DOI: 10.1007/s13524-017-0558-2
Abstract: We study the economic assimilation of childhood immigrants to the United States. The linguistic distance between English and the predominant language in one’s country of birth interacted with age at arrival is shown to be… read more here.
Keywords: economic assimilation; childhood; occupational sorting; childhood immigrants ... See more keywords
Immigrants’ Economic Assimilation: Evidence from Longitudinal Earnings Records
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DOI: 10.1177/0003122418780366
Abstract: We examine immigrants’ earnings trajectories and measure the extent and speed with which they are able to reduce the earnings gap with natives, using a dataset that links respondents of the Survey of Income and… read more here.
Keywords: assimilation; economic assimilation; assimilation evidence; longitudinal earnings ... See more keywords