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Title: Changes in educational composition and average earnings of Italian immigrants and US-born workers from 1960 to 2010
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Publication Year: 2022
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Abstract: This report compares the educational composition and average earnings of immigrants from Italy to the educational composition and average earnings of people born in the US over time using data for the years: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010. The following analysis is based on data from the American Community Survey (ACS), as obtained from IPUMS-USA (Ruggles et al, 2022). The variables used in this report are: “bpl”, “educ” “incwage”. The variable “bpl” documents a person’s place of birth. Values of this variable that record a person’s place of birth not being from Italy or the United States are excluded from the analysis. The variable “educ” notes the educational attainment of the individual. Individuals are grouped into 12, ranging from no schooling to a Doctorate. No group was removed, for instance, the “no schooling” was maintained, considering the selected years of the analysis. The 12 groups were then divided initially into four categories by education level as follows: grade eleven or below, a high school diploma, some college, and a bachelor’s degree or above. In the first analysis, the groups are condensed into two educational attainments: “lower education” and “higher education”. People having a lower education are defined as having some college or below and people with higher education as having a bachelor’s degree or above. Lastly, the variable “incwage” reports yearly wages and salaries of individuals, not adjusted for inflation. The missing values and not applicable observations are replaced. The educational attainment of immigrants from Italy and people born in the US are compared, with a detailed focus on the years 1960 and 2010; further, the relationship between educational attainment and yearly income is presented. The analysis will include six graphs. The first graph will compare the educational attainment between Italian immigrants and people born in the US, outlining the greater picture. The next two graphs will compare in detail the educational attainment between Italian immigrants and people born in the US for two specific years: 1960 and 2010. The last three graphs show first a greater picture of the earnings across years, and lastly a comparison of the educational attainment and the yearly earnings between Italian immigrants and people born in the US, for the years 1960 and 2010 The sample contains 36,450,459 observations, of these 36,269,933 are people born in the US, and 180,256 are Italian immigrants. For the year 1960, the sample contains 5,610,619 observations of which 61,004 are immigrants from Italy. For the year 2010, the sample contains 2,109,609 observations of which 4,530 are immigrants from Italy
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Authors: Setten, Giacomo
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration
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