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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w6630 |
来源ID | Working Paper 6630 |
The Immigrant and Native-born Wage Distributions: Evidence from United States Censuses | |
Kristin F. Butcher; John DiNardo | |
发表日期 | 1998-07-01 |
出版年 | 1998 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Over the past thirty years, immigration has increased, immigrant characteristics have changed, and the relative mean wages of immigrants vis … vis the native born have declined. Using data from four U.S. Censuses (1960 - 1990) we examine changes in the wage structure and their role in explaining comparisons between immigrants and the native-born in mean wages. Inter alia, we document that patterns of comparison between the immigrants and the native-born are not the same for men and for women, and that these differences in immigrant/native-born comparisons among men and women are a consequence of different evolutions in the wage structure. Although virtually ignored in the immigration literature, we return to a well-understood aspect of Blinder/Oaxaca differentials: the extent of measured discrimination depends on the base' prices used for comparison. Contrary to previous work which finds little impact of the wage structure on immigrant/native-born wage differentials, we observe that if the wage structure' had remained as it was in 1970, for example, the decline in immigrant wages relative to the native-born would generally be much smaller than has been observed. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Unemployment and Immigration |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w6630 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/564142 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kristin F. Butcher,John DiNardo. The Immigrant and Native-born Wage Distributions: Evidence from United States Censuses. 1998. |
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