The Earnings of US immigrants

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The Earnings of US immigrants

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Guillermina Jasso (New York University)
Mark Rosensweig (Penn)
James P. Smith (RAND)

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Abstract

Using a new survey of legal immigrants to the United States, the authors develop and test a model of the determinants of skill selectivity of those migrants

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Labor and Demography with number 0312007.

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Keywords: Immigration

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