Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
利用1979和1989年独特数据，发现美国出生的墨西哥裔相比移民的工资优势不仅来自教育和英语水平提升，还来自人力资本回报增加；但第二代之后进步停滞。
Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper\ncompares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the\nsizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants\narises not just from intergenerational improvements in years of schooling and English\nproficiency, but also from increased returns to human capital for Mexican-origin workers who\nwere born and educated in the United States. Even if we consider immigrants who have\nworked in the United States for 40 years and who therefore have had ample time for labor\nmarket assimilation, my estimates indicate that a discrete jump in earnings and the wage\nstructure occurs between the first and second generations. Progress seems to stall after the\nsecond generation, however, as the much more modest gains in schooling and English\nfluency that occur between the second and third generations do not appear to raise the\nearnings of Mexican Americans any further.