The Immigrant and Native-Born Wage Distributions
Evidence from United States Censuses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3117795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin F Butcher (corresponding author), John Dinardo |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3270651 |
| OpenAlex | W2890528898 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 24 |
Recent studies document a large widening of the immigrant/native-born mean wage gap since about 1970, a trend that some observers ascribe to post-1965 changes in U.S. immigration policy. These studies are limited, however, by their exclusive focus on men, which ignores important gender differences in the wage gap, and by the inadequacy of the mean wage for characterizing the gap when, as in recent decades, the wage distribution dramatically changes. This study of recent immigrants examines changes across the entire wage distribution, for both genders. The authors find evidence, based partly on gender differences, that minimum wages strongly influenced the gap. A counterfactual analysis also indicates that if recent immigrants in 1970 had faced the 1990 wage structure, their wage distribution would have closely resembled that of recent immigrants in 1990. These and other results suggest that the increasing wage gap is linked to changes in the wage structure
Counterfactual thinking · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Labour economics · Native-Born · Political science · Wage · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology
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Emerging Contexts of Second-Generation Labour Markets in the United States
The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants' Employment and Earnings
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Understanding the Role of Immigrant Families' Cultural and Structural Mechanisms in Immigrant Children's Experiences beyond High School
The relative pay for foreign work
"Making Do" in the Land of Opportunity-a Quantitative Exploration of the Economic Integration of Refugees in Utah
Issues in the Economics of Immigration
Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis
The Returns to Computer Use Revisited
On Estimation of a Probability Density Function and Mode
A Reliable Data-Based Bandwidth Selection Method for Kernel Density Estimation
Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992
Remarks on Some Nonparametric Estimates of a Density Function
Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987
Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets
Wage Discrimination
Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality Revisited
Black-White Earnings Over the 1970s and 1980s
Is There a Double-Negative Effect on the Earnings of Immigrant Women
Post-World War II Immigration to the United States
The Labor Market Skills of Recent Male Immigrants
Labor Market Assimilation of Immigrant Women
The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |