Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 24 No. 2 2006
Immigrants and the Labor Market
Abstract
This article examines skill gaps between immigrants and native‐born Americans and generational progress achieved by different immigrant ethnic groups. Evidence of a widening skill gap is not strong. While wage data show a pronounced fall in relative wages of “recent” immigrants, significant independent contributors to that decline are a widening age gap and the increasing price of skill. When attention shifts to legal migrants, the evidence is that legal migrants are, at a minimum, keeping up with native‐born Americans. I find that the concern that educational generational progress among Latino immigrants has lagged behind other immigrant ethnic groups is unfounded.
- DOI
- 10.1086/499971
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 203-233
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref