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

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Borjas, George J

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This article 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, recent immigrants will earn 15-20 percent less than natives throughout much of their working lives. Copyright 1995 by University of Chicago Press.

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Volume (Year): 13 (1995)
Issue (Month): 2 (April)
Pages: 201-45
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