@techreport{Antecol2004Assimilation,
abstract = {How do international differences in labor market institutions affect the nature of immigrant 
earnings assimilation?  Using 1980/81 and 1990/91 cross-sections of census data from Australia, 
Canada, and the United States, we estimate the separate effects of arrival cohort and duration of 
destination-country residence on immigrant outcomes in each country.  Relatively inflexible wages 
and generous unemployment insurance in Australia suggest that immigrants there might improve 
themselves primarily through employment gains rather than wage growth, and we find empirically 
that employment gains explain all of the labor market progress experienced by Australian 
immigrants.  Wages are less rigid in Canada and the United States than in Australia, with the general 
consensus that the U.S. labor market is the most flexible of the three.  We find that wage assimilation 
is an important source of immigrant earnings growth in both Canada and the United States, but the 
magnitude of wage assimilation is substantially larger in the United States. These same general 
patterns remain when we replicate our analyses for two subsamples of immigrants - Europeans and 
Asians - that are more homogeneous in national origins yet still provide sufficiently large sample 
sizes for each country.},
author = {Heather Antecol and Peter Kuhn and Stephen J. Trejo},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {330; Migranten; Ausl\"{a}ndische Arbeitskr\"{a}fte; Lohn; Soziale Integration; Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung; Sch\"{a}tzung; Australien; Kanada; Vereinigte Staaten},
language = {eng},
number = {04,07},
title = {Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? : Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada and the United States},
type = {Working paper series / Claremont McKenna College},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23394},
year = {2004}
}

