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Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality Revisited: What Happened to Immigrant Earnings in the 1980s?

Year: 1994

Type: report

Abstract: This paper uses the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Public Use Samples of the U.S. Census to document what happened to immigrant earnings in the 1980s, and to determine if pre-1980 immigrant flows reached earnings parity with natives.The relative entry wage of successive immigrant cohorts declined by 9 percent in the 1970s, and by an additional 6 percent in the 1980s.Although the relative wage of immigrants grows by 10 percent during the first two decades after arrival, the relative wage of post-1970 immigrants will remain 15 to 20 percent below those of natives throughout much of their working lives.

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research

DOI: 10.3386/w4866

Author: George Borjas

Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, University of California San Diego

Language: English

Topic: Migration and Labor Dynamics

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W2059536128

Cites: 22

Cited by: 108

Related to: 10