Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/233010 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 820
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial earnings and low earnings growth. We describe the methodological issues that create this divide and show that low earnings growth becomes high earnings growth when immigrants are followed from their initial years in the U.S., earnings growth is allowed to vary with entry earnings, and-when following cohorts instead of individuals-sample restrictions commonly used by labor economists are avoided.
Subjects: 
Sample restrictions
immigrant earning growth
human capital investment
the U.S. census
JEL: 
J1
J2
J3
C1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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