Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment. A new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation.

Autor/inn/en	Duleep, Harriet; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark
Institution	USA. General Land Office
Titel	Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment. A new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Herkunftsland, Einkommenskonvergenz und Bildungsinvestitionen. Eine neue Methode für die Analyse der wirtschaftlichen Assimilation von Einwanderern in die USA.
Quelle	Maastricht (2018), 52 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	GLO discussion paper. 247
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Konvergenz; Einkommensunterschied; Inländer; Migrationshintergrund; Investition; Lohnentwicklung; Lohnhöhe; Qualifikation; Aufenthaltsdauer; Arbeitnehmer; Ausländer; Herkunftsland; USA
Abstract	"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 earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that variation in initial skill transferability - not variation in the 'quality' of human capital - underlies variation in initial earnings. A new method of testing for emigration bias confirms that selective emigration does not cause the convergence. Functional form and sample selections embedded in most recent analyses of immigrant economic assimilation bias downwards the earnings growth of post-1965 U.S. immigrants. When both functional-form and sample-selection constraints are lifted, a dramatically different picture of the economic assimilation of U.S. immigrants emerges." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/1