Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Carl Lin

No 7208, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been escalating in contrast to other immigrants. I show these widening gaps are largely explained by individual's endowments, mostly education. Rising U.S.-earned degrees by CHT migrants can account for this relatively successful economic assimilation. Cohort analysis shows that the economic performance of CHT migrants admitted to the U.S. has been improving, even allowing for the effect of aging.

Keywords: synthetic cohort analysis; Oaxaca decomposition; economic assimilation; Chinese immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2013-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21(2), 249-265

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