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Title: The Occupational Attainment of Natives and Immigrants: A Cross-Cohort Analysis

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: This paper investigates the occupational characteristics of natives and immigrants in the United States. Occupations are characterized by a vector of task usages (analytical, interactive, and manual) that describe the activities performed on the job. Immigrants on average perform fewer analytical and interactive tasks and more manual tasks than natives, and these differences are larger for women than men. The task usage gaps between natives and immigrants have widened significantly since 1970. These gaps remain (but shrink) when comparing natives and immigrants in the same age and education group. Lower English language proficiency and living in a larger ethnic or language enclave increase the task usage gaps. While immigrants task usages tend to assimilate to natives with time since migration, newer immigrant cohorts have experienced significantly slower occupational assimilation than earlier cohorts. These results have potentially important implications for recent findings of slower economic assimilation of recent cohorts.

Url: http://economics.ca/2015/papers/CH0023-1.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

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