Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
利用1979年和1989年11月的当前人口调查数据，比较墨西哥裔男性不同代际的工资结构，发现美国出生的墨西哥裔比移民收入高，不仅因为教育年限和英语水平提高，还因为在美国出生和受教育者的人力资本回报更高，但第二代之后进步停滞。
Abstract Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational improvements in years of schooling and English proficiency, but also from increased returns to human capital for Mexican-origin workers who were born and educated in the United States. Progress stalls after the second generation, however, as the modest gains in human capital that occur between the second and third generations fail to raise the average earnings of Mexican Americans.