The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants: Aging and Cohort Effects Revisited Again

George Borjas

Chapter 3 in Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics, 2021, pp 31-65 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This paper examines the evolution of immigrant earnings in the United States between 1970 and 2010. There are cohort effects not only in wage levels, with more recent cohorts having lower entry wages through 1990, but also in the rate of wage growth, with more recent cohorts experiencing less economic assimilation. The slowdown in assimilation is partly related to a concurrent decline in the rate at which the new immigrants add to their human capital stock, as measured by English language proficiency. The data also suggest that larger national origin groups experience less economic assimilation.

Keywords: Immigration; Economics; Labor Markets; Refugees; Self-selection; Return Migration; Migration; Costs and Benefits from Immigration; Assimilation; Cohort Effects; National Origin; Ethnicity; Neighborhood Effects; Ethnic Capital; Internal Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F66 J01 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Journal Article: The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants: Aging and Cohort Effects Revisited Again (2015)
Working Paper: The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants: Aging and Cohort Effects Revisited Again (2013)
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