Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/225239 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 685
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was more lucrative in the origin country, conditional on individual demographics, parental human capital, and ethnic networks. However, the importance of the origin wage declines with the length of time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation.
Subjects: 
immigrants
occupational choices
origin wage
intergenerational transmission
assimilation
human capital
information
JEL: 
J15
J24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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