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Title: The Decline in Earnings of Childhood Immigrants in the U.S.

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Recent empirical work documenting a declining trend in immigrant earnings relative to natives has focused primarily on immigrants who arrive as adults. In this paper, I find a large decline in the earnings of childhood immigrants (who represent over one fifth of the working immigrant population in my sample) in the U.S. between 1990 and 2010, and in particular during the 1990s. This drop in earnings has occurred across all age at arrival groups, but has disproportionately impacted lower-educated immigrants. A large decline in English language proficiency can explain much of this trend. A concentration of source countries (largely, through not entirely, due to an increase in Mexican immigration) has also contributed, mainly through the negative impacts it has had on English language proficiency and education levels.

Url: https://www.sole-jole.org/16289.pdf

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Authors: Cassidy, Hugh

Publisher: Kansas State University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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