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Title: An Empirical Study of Earnings of Immigrants and Native-Born Americans in the U.S. Labor Market Given Different Levels of Educational Attainment

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: This paper will compare the lifetime wage earnings of immigrants and native born citizens in the US for the years of 2000 – 2010 according to educational attainment using cross-sectional data. The data is obtained through IPUMS-CPS Integrated Public Use of Microdata Series, University of Minnesota. The findings of Investment in Human Capital of Mincer (1958), the Immigrant’s Earnings Distribution of Chiswick and Miller (2006), the Pareto’s Law of Income Distribution, and the Immigrants Investment in Human Capital Model by Duleep and Regets (1999) are the theoretical basis in which this study will be ruled. The empirical evidence suggests that immigrants who invest in education have closer lifetime income earnings in the higher income distribution levels to the US native born citizens than those who do not. It also shows that according to age, the average wage earnings will increase rapidly the first working years, settle by the middle, and decrease at the end for all the educational attainment levels.

Url: http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=economics_theses

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Authors: Gomez Bravo, Yuli, P

Institution: Buffalo State College

Department: Economics and Finance Department

Advisor: Frederick Floss

Degree: Masters

Publisher Location: Buffalo, New York

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other

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