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Immigrant Wage Assimilation and the Return to Foreign and Host-Country Sources of Human Capital

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Skuterud, Mikal
Su, Mingcui

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We compare predicted relative immigrant wage profiles based on returns to YSM and to foreign and host-country sources of schooling and experience. We find the biases inherent in inferring assimilation from a return to YSM appear more substantial than those emanating from the assumptions necessary to estimate foreign and host-country returns directly using standard data sources. Given the policy relevance of allowing entry effects and subsequent wage growth to depend on the foreign human capital immigrants bring and their post-migration schooling and work decisions, our findings suggest the predominance of YSM models in the literature is not well founded.

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Paper provided by UBC Department of Economics in its series CLSRN Working Papers with number clsrn_admin-2009-38.

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Length: 46 pages
Date of creation: 26 Jun 2009
Date of revision: 26 Jun 2009
Handle: RePEc:ubc:clssrn:clsrn_admin-2009-38

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Keywords: Immigrant workers; wage differentials; human capital;

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J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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