TY  - JOUR
AU  - Borjas,George J.
TI  - Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality Revisited: What Happened to Immigrant Earnings in the 1980s?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4866
PY  - 1994
Y2  - September 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4866
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4866.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
George J. Borjas
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-1393
Fax: 617/495-9532
E-Mail: gborjas@harvard.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1995-03-01
AB  - 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.
ER  -