Admission-Group Salary Differentials in the United States
The Significance of the Labour-Market Institutional Selection of High-Skilled Workers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3622048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ling-Xin Hao (0000-0002-4694-0917, corresponding author), Lingxin Hao |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1337-1360 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2013.787513 |
| PMID | 26269690 |
| PMCID | PMC4530639 |
| OpenAlex | W2073042695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 17 |
In 1990 a temporary-to-permanent pathway was established for highly skilled workers admitted to the United States under nonimmigrant programs. The paper argues that this policy shift has allowed employers to play a crucial role in the immigration of highly skilled workers, thereby creating labor-market institutional selection that gives a salary advantage to highly skilled temporary-admitted workers retained in the United States. Through analyses of the salary differentials among admission-category groups, the paper finds that the salary advantage is based on recruitment from Western countries, adjustment from temporary to permanent status after a second employer screening, working in the information technology sector and the private sector, holding a supervisory position, or having a skill-matched job, all of which are consequences of institutional selection rather than individual self-selection. Our results also reveal a difference between those admitted from abroad and those recruited from graduating foreign students in USA higher educational institutions, which suggests a distinction between overseas hiring and domestic hiring. Policy implications for the United States and other receiving countries are discussed
Business · Demographic economics · Economics · Immigration · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Position (finance · Salary · Selection (genetic algorithm · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Finance
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| Citations per year | 0.73 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |