The Evolution of the Returns to Schooling for Refugees and Other Immigrants in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7156965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abdihafit Shaeye (0000-0001-8172-8316, Kent State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 388-410 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Migration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0197-9183 • E-ISSN: 1747-7379 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01979183231193633 |
| OpenAlex | W4387023016 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
Previous research has shown that refugees have lower earnings than other immigrants with comparable human capital. The differences in the degree of correlation between schooling and unobservable factors across the two groups may contribute to this gap. This paper investigates the returns to schooling for refugee and non-refugee men in the United States. The results show that the returns to schooling are lower for refugees upon arrival. This gap persists over two decades in the country and is robust to specifications that conduct sensitivity analysis, suggesting that differences in unobservable characteristics that are important in immigrants’ labor market success, particularly adaptability traits, drive the initial gap in the returns to schooling and how the gap changes over time
Demographic economics · Earnings · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Human capital · Immigration · Labour economics · Political science · Refugee · Unobservable · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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The complementarity of language and other human capital
The Impact of Host-Country Schooling on Earnings
Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?
Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected
Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants
The Endogeneity between Language and Earnings
Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
Explaining the Refugee Gap
The Survival Job Trap
Income maximization and the selection and sorting of international migrants
Refugee Economic Adaptation
U.S. Immigrants’ labor market adjustment
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
Occupational Trajectories of Legal US Immigrants
The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market
Dynamics of English Fluency Return for Refugees and Other Immigrants in the United States
The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries
| Highly cited | No |
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