Earnings Inequality and Immobility for Hispanics and Asians: An Examination of Variation Across Subgroups

Randall Akee, Sonya R. Porter and Emilia Simeonova

Working Papers from U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies

Abstract: Our analysis provides the rst disaggregated examination of earnings inequality and immobility within the Hispanic ethnic group and the Asian race group in the U.S. over the period of 2005-2015. Our analysis differentiates between long-term immigrant and native-born Hispanics and Asians relative to recent immigrants to the U.S. (post 2005) and new labor market entrants. Our results show that for the Asian and Hispanic population aged 18-45, earnings inequality is constant or slightly decreasing for the long-term immigrant and native-born populations. However, including new labor market entrants and recent immigrants to the U.S. contributes significantly to the earnings inequality for these groups at both the aggregate and disaggregated race or ethnic group levels. These findings have important implications for the measurement of inequality for racial and ethnic groups that have higher proportions of new immigrants and new labor market entrants in the U.S.

Keywords: Earnings immobility; earnings inequality; race; ethnicity; data disaggregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2021-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mig, nep-sea and nep-ure
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