Wage Mobility of Foreign-Born Workers in the United States
研究了外国出生工人是否融入美国劳动力市场，通过工资流动性分析发现中低分位组移民相对于同组本地人趋于落后。
This paper presents new evidence on whether foreign-born workers assimilate. While the existing literature focuses on the convergence / divergence of average wages, this study extends the analysis to the distribution of wages by looking at wage mobility. We measure the foreign-native gap in year-to-year transition probabilities from one decile group to another of a wage distribution, where the deciles are determined by native samples. Our results, based on the Current Population Survey for 1996-2008, suggest that immigrants in middle and bottom decile groups, who are the majority of immigrants, tend to fall behind relative to natives in the same decile groups.