Arbeitspapier
Imputation Match Bias in Immigrant Wage Convergence
Although immigrants to the United States earn less at entry than their native-born counterparts, an extensive literature finds that immigrants have faster earnings growth that results in rapid convergence to native-born earnings. However, recent evidence based on Census data indicates a slowdown in the rate of earnings assimilation. We find that the pace of immigrant wage convergence based on recent data may be understated in the literature due to the method used by the Census to impute missing information on earnings, which does not use immigration status as a match characteristic. Because both the share of immigrants in the workforce and earnings imputation rates have risen over time, imputation match bias for recent immigrants is more consequential than in earlier periods and may lead to an underestimate of the rate of immigrant wage convergence.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11306
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Thema
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immigrant assimilation
imputation match bias
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hersch, Joni
Shinall, Jennifer Bennett
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2018
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hersch, Joni
- Shinall, Jennifer Bennett
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2018
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