@techreport{NBERw4866,
 title = "Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality Revisited: What Happened to Immigrant Earnings in the 1980s?",
 author = "George J. Borjas",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "4866",
 year = "1994",
 month = "September",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w4866",
 abstract = {This paper uses the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Public Use Samples of the U.S. Census to document what happened to immigrant earnings in the 1980s, and to determine if pre-1980 immigrant flows reached earnings parity with natives.  The relative entry wage of successive immigrant cohorts declined by 9 percent in the 1970s, and by an additional 6 percent in the 1980s.  Although the relative wage of immigrants grows by 10 percent during the first two decades after arrival, the relative wage of post-1970 immigrants will remain 15 to 20 percent below those of natives throughout much of their working lives.},
}