Immigrant Worker Assimilation: Is It a Labor Market Phenomenon?
通过模型估计外国出生西班牙裔和东亚男性与美国本土白人的职业选择和收入，检验移民同化假说，发现同化现象可能源于儿童移民的早期经历及美国移民法放宽技能标准。
The work in this paper contributes to the debate on the economic assimilation of immigrant workers in the U.S. labor market. A model of simultaneous occupational choice and earnings is estimated for foreign born Hispanic men, foreign born East Asian men and for native white men to test the general hypotheses of assimilation. An important distinction is made between those who migrated as adults and those who migrated as children. The results suggest that the appearance of assimilation may be the outcome of pre-labor market experiences of individuals who migrate as children, along with changes in U.S. immigration law that have relaxed skill criteria for entering immigrants.