Immigrant Wage Assimilation and the Return to Foreign and Host-Country Sources of Human Capital

Mikal Skuterud and Mingcui Su

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Abstract: We compare predicted relative immigrant wage profiles based on returns to YSM and to foreign and host-country sources of schooling and experience. We find the biases inherent in inferring assimilation from a return to YSM appear more substantial than those emanating from the assumptions necessary to estimate foreign and host-country returns directly using standard data sources. Given the policy relevance of allowing entry effects and subsequent wage growth to depend on the foreign human capital immigrants bring and their post-migration schooling and work decisions, our findings suggest the predominance of YSM models in the literature is not well founded.

Keywords: Immigrant workers; wage differentials; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2009-06-26, Revised 2009-06-26
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hrm, nep-lab and nep-mig
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