Is the New Immigration Less Skilled Than the Old?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23318324 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry R Chiswick (0000-0003-3416-2713, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 168-192 |
| Publication date | 1986-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Labor Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-306X • E-ISSN: 1537-5307 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/298099 |
| PMID | 12268129 |
| OpenAlex | W1978460748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 98 |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper analyzes trends in the skills of immigrants to the United States in the post-World War II period. Changes in the supply, demand, and institutional factors determining immigration are analyzed for their implications for immigrant skills. The empirical analysis uses INS administrative data, the 1970 and 1980 censuses, and the 1976 Survey of Income and Education. Relatively more immigrants are now coming from countries whose nationals earn less in the United States. The schooling level of immigrants has been fairly stable; the declining level for the growing Hispanic immigration is offset by the high level of the increasing Asian immigration. Immigrant quality, ceteris paribus, is analyzed. Policy implications are discussed.
Context (archaeology) · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Immigration policy · Incentive · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Sociology · Vietnamese · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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Administrative Policy Making
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Chinese Immigrants in Canada
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From Refuge to Riches? An Analysis of Refugees’ Wage Assimilation in the United States 1
The Earnings of Asian Male Immigrants in the Canadian Labor Market
Immigration and the Earnings of Youth in the U.S
Economic Theory and International Migration
A Longitudinal Analysts of Immigrant Occupational Mobility
Puerto Rican Migration and Occupational Selectivity, 1982–1981
The Immigration of Asian Professionals to the United States
English Language Proficiency among the Foreign Born in the United States, 1980–2007
Occupational Status and Mobility among Undocumented Immigrants by Gender
The Occupational Assimilation of Hispanic Immigrants in the U.S
Caribbean Immigrants
Determinants of English Proficiency among Mexican Migrants to the United States
Decomposing migration drivers
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Going Places
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Hardship Among Immigrants and the Native-born in the United States
Self-selection and earnings assimilation
Educational selectivity in U.S. Immigration
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The Influence of Country of Birth and Other Variables on the Earnings of Immigrants
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Economic integration in an urban labor market
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Immigrant Selectivity Effects on Health, Labor Market, and Educational Outcomes
Understanding the Economic Integration of Immigrants
Chain Migration and Information Networks
Revealing Talent
On Detention and Skill
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The impact of migration policy on the labour market performance of migrants
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Earning Trajectories of Highly Educated Immigrants
The Earnings of Immigrant Men in Canada
Who should America welcome
Extended Stratification
Africans in the diaspora
The impact of immigration on unemployment and earnings among racial minorities in the United States
Ethnicity and naturalization
Illegal Aliens in the United States Labor Market
Differences between Return and Nonreturn Migration
Geographic Distribution of Undocumented Immigrants
Foreign-Born Emigration from the United States
Migration, Age, and Education
Effects of Cohort Size on Earnings
Shipping the Good Apples Out
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
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| Unique citing works | 98 |
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| Citations per year | 2,51 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2026 (40) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 86 |