Immigrant Economic Assimilation: Evidence from UK Longitudinal Data between 1978 and 2006

Sara Lemos

No 11/39, Discussion Papers in Economics from Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester

Abstract: We exploit a large and long longitudinal dataset to estimate the immigrant-native earnings gap at entry and over time for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and assimilation effects. We also estimate the associated immigrant earnings growth rate and immigrant-native earnings convergence rate. Our estimates suggest that immigrants from more recent cohorts fare better than earlier ones at entry. Furthermore, the earnings of immigrants from more recent cohorts catch up faster with natives' earnings. While the convergence took over 30 years for those entering in the post-war, it only took half as long for those entering in the early 2000s. This earnings growth is fastest in the first 10 years, and it considerably slows down after 30 years.

Keywords: Immigration; assimilation; wages; earnings; earnings-gap; UK. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J24 J31 J61 J71 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-09, Revised 2011-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-mig
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