Hispanic Men's Earnings Mobility Across Immigrant Generations: Estimates Using Tax Records.

ABSTRACT: Whether immigrants and their descendants are catching up socioeconomically with the rest of society is a fundamental question in the study of immigrant assimilation. In this paper, we examine the progress that Hispanic immigrant men make catching up with the earnings of later-generation Whites across generations. We rely on data from multiple years of the Current Population Survey linked with individuals' tax earnings. This unique dataset allows us to overcome some important limitations of previous studies that employ a synthetic generation approach in which individuals born approximately one generation earlier are used as proxies for actual parents. Our matching strategy also enables us to identify the exact third generation and evaluate the contribution of ethnic attrition to estimates o

SUBMITTER: Villarreal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11784596 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature