Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis
By Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller. Social Science Research Network, 2005
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This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the immigrant adjustment model, which incorporates both the transferability of immigrant skills and selectively in migration. The cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses generate similar findings. The level and relative growth of earnings are higher for immigrants with higher levels of skill and who are economic/skills tested migrants, as distinct from family based and refugee migrants. The analysis indicates that immigrant economic assimilation does occur and that in these data the cross-section provides a good estimate of the longitudinal progress of immigrants. The findings are robust across statistical techniques.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
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- Labour segregation and immigrant and native-born wage distributions in Spain: an analysis using matched employer–employee data (2008, background): “This literature has placed special attention on the wages of immigrants relative to native-born workers and its key empirical findings are, firstly, that immigrants typically face a significant wage gap and, secondly, that the gap tends to diminish the longer they remain in their host country (Chisw”
- Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings - Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection (2009, unknown): “, Dustmann (1994), uses speaking and writing fluency, Dustmann and van Soest (2001; 2002) use information on speaking fluency compressed by a dummy instead of a five-scale variable.”
- International Migration and the Economics of Language (2014, background): “Children can have offsetting effects on their parents’ proficiency (Chiswick, 1998; Chiswick and Miller, 2007a, 2008b; Chiswick et al., 2005a, 2005b).”