Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Barbara Hanel () and Duncan McVicar
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Barbara Hanel: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne, http://melbourneinstitute.com/staff/bhanel/default.html
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Abstract: We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001 - 2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on crosssectional data and have therefore suffered from a range of potential biases. We find that a fixed-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by cross-sectional and synthetic cohort methods. However, there are no significant differences in the wage assimilation profiles across alternative methods.

Keywords: Immigration; immigrant assimilation; employment; wages; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2012-11
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