Arbeitspapier

Local unemployment and the relative wages of immigrants: Evidence from the current population surveys

We provide evidence on wage profiles of immigrants using CPS data from 1979 to 2001, taking into account that changes in labor market conditions impact natives and immigrants differently. High rates of immigrant wage assimilation in general, and relatively high wages of immigrant cohorts that arrived during the 1990s in particular, can largely be explained by a negative trend in unemployment in the data. Relating immigrant and native period effects to local labor market unemployment, we find that wage assimilation among lesser-educated immigrants is negligible and that the immigrant-native wage gap is strongly increasing in unemployment. For highly educated immigrants, rates of wage assimilation during early years in the United States are higher the lower is unemployment.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Memorandum ; No. 2002,20

Classification
Wirtschaft
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition
Subject
immigrants
unemployment
assimilation
Regionale Arbeitslosigkeit
Regionale Lohnstruktur
Flüchtlinge
Norwegen

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Barth, Erling
Bratsberg, Bernt
Raaum, Oddbjørn
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Oslo, Department of Economics
(where)
Oslo
(when)
2002

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Barth, Erling
  • Bratsberg, Bernt
  • Raaum, Oddbjørn
  • University of Oslo, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2002

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