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Title: The Slowdown in Earnings Assimilation of U.S. Immigrants: The Role of Occupational Task Requirements

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: This paper investigates the slowdown in earnings assimilation of recent immigrants to the U.S. I find that recent immigrant cohorts have experienced slower assimilation in terms of their occupational task requirements compared to past cohorts. This occupational task assimilation slowdown can explain a large portion of the slowdown in earnings assimilation. Furthermore, accounting for changing returns to task requirements across years (notably an increase in analytical and interactive task returns) can explain an additional, significant portion of the earnings slowdown.

Url: http://www.cla.auburn.edu/economics/assets/File/AssimilationSlowdownTasks.pdf

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Authors: Cassidy, Hugh

Publisher: Kansas State University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

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

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