Assimilation and the Earnings of Young Internal Migrants
利用美国青年纵向调查数据，研究国内年轻移民在适应新居住地过程中是否经历经济同化，发现他们最初收入低于本地人，但几年后差距消失，且初始劣势与迁移距离和目的地劳动力市场状况有关。
This paper investigates if young internal migrants in the United States experience economic assimilation as they adapt to their new residential location. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the authors examine how the hourly earnings of interstate migrants are affected by the number of years they have spent in their destination state. Their study indicates that internal migrants initially earn less than natives but that this wage differential disappears within a few years. Moreover, the initial wage disadvantage of internal migrants depends upon the distance moved and economic conditions in the destination labor market. Copyright 1992 by MIT Press.