Imputation Match Bias in Immigrant Wage Convergence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10969754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joni Hersch (0000-0001-5225-6639, Vanderbilt Law School, 131 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203, USA, corresponding author), Jennifer Bennett Shinall (0000-0001-6848-1152, Vanderbilt Law School, 131 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1475-1485 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Demography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13524-018-0686-3 |
| PMID | 29943353 |
| OpenAlex | W2786144572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
Although immigrants to the United States earn less at entry than their native-born counterparts, an extensive literature has found that immigrants have faster earnings growth that results in rapid convergence to native-born earnings. However, recent evidence based on U.S. Census data indicates a slowdown in the rate of earnings assimilation. We find that the pace of immigrant wage convergence based on recent data may be understated in the literature as a result of the method used by the census to impute missing information on earnings, which does not use immigration status as a match characteristic. Because both the share of immigrants in the workforce and earnings imputation rates have risen over time, imputation match bias for recent immigrants is more consequential than in earlier periods and may lead to an underestimate of the rate of immigrant wage convergence
Census · Convergence (economics · Demographic economics · Earnings · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Imputation (statistics · Labour economics · Missing data · Population · Sociology · Statistics · Wage · Workforce · Demography · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants
Match Bias in Wage Gap Estimates Due to Earnings Imputation
The Economics of Immigration
The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration
Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants
The Economics of Immigration
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |