Immigrants' Economic Assimilation: Evidence from Longitudinal Earnings Records.

ABSTRACT: We examine immigrants' earnings trajectories, and measure both the extent and speed with which they are able to reduce the earnings gap with natives, using a unique dataset that links respondents of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to their longitudinal earnings obtained from individual tax records. Our analysis addresses key debates regarding ethnoracial and cohort differences in immigrants' earnings trajectories. First, we find a racially-differentiated pattern of earnings assimilation whereby black and Hispanic immigrants are less able to catch up with native whites' earnings compared to white and Asian immigrants, but are able to almost reach earnings parity with natives of their same race and ethnicity. Second, we find no evidence of a declining "quality" of immig

SUBMITTER: Villarreal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6290669 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature