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
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No 7062, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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 cross-sectional 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: 12 pages
Date: 2012-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-mig
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