Earnings and assimilation of female immigrants |
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| Authors: | Elizabeth Field-Hendrey Erol Balkan |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, Queens College and Graduate Center , City University of New York , Flushing , New York 11367 , USA;2. Department of Economics , Hamilton College , Clinton , New York 13323 , USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the earnings and assimilation of female immigrants to the US, using 1970 and 1980 census data. A correction for selectivity bias is employed. In addition, to correct for the lack of work history data in the census, an experience proxy derived from data in the Panel Survey on Income Dynamics is employed. Female immigrants, taken as a group, with similar characteristics to natives, are shown to have initiality lower earnings but to catch up within about ten years. |
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