Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality Revisited: What Happened to Immigrant Earnings in the 1980s? / George J. Borjas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borjas, George J.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w4866.

NBER working paper series no. w4866

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality Revisited

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1994.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

September 1994.