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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.creator | Cortes, Kalena E. | - |
| dc.date | 2004 | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-16T07:09:49Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2013-10-16T07:09:49Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-10-16 | - |
| dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20298 | - |
| dc.identifier | ppn:381659941 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20298 | - |
| dc.description | This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants who arrived in the U.S. from 1975 to 1980. I find that in 1980 refugee immigrants in this cohort earned 6 percent less and worked 14 percent fewer hours than economic immigrants. Both had about the same level of English skills. The two immigrant groups had made substantial gains by 1990; however, refugees had made greater gains. In fact, the labor market outcomes of refugee immigrants surpassed those of economic immigrants. In 1990, refugees from the 1975-1980 arrival cohort earned 20 percent more, worked 4 percent more hours, and improved their English skills by 11 percent relative to economic immigrants. The higher rates of human capital accumulation for refugee immigrants contribute to these findings. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | - | |
| dc.relation | IZA Discussion paper series 1063 | - |
| dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | - |
| dc.subject | J24 | - |
| dc.subject | J31 | - |
| dc.subject | F22 | - |
| dc.subject | C81 | - |
| dc.subject | ddc:330 | - |
| dc.subject | refugee and economic immigrants | - |
| dc.subject | human capital investment | - |
| dc.subject | wage growth | - |
| dc.subject | Flüchtlinge | - |
| dc.subject | Einwanderung | - |
| dc.subject | Internationale Arbeitsmobilität | - |
| dc.subject | Vergleich | - |
| dc.subject | Bildungsinvestition | - |
| dc.subject | Lohn | - |
| dc.subject | Soziale Integration | - |
| dc.subject | Schätzung | - |
| dc.subject | Vereinigte Staaten | - |
| dc.title | Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? : Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States | - |
| dc.type | doc-type:workingPaper | - |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor | |
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