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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? : Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States

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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


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