title: Did the decline continue? Comparing the labor-market quality of United States immigrants from the late 1970s and late 1980s.
abstract: "The issue addressed in this paper is whether or not the decline in immigrant labor-market quality in the U.S. observed in the late 1960s and 1970s continued in the 1980s." The data are from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and are provided for the years 1979-1980 and 1989-1990. "Given the rise in earnings inequality that has occurred in the United States over the 1980s, the returns to immigration for the more highly skilled will have increased relative to the low skilled, ceteris paribus. For this reason, it is possible that the skill decline of immigrants may have halted in the 1980s as immigrants of differing skill levels respond to the altered circumstances they would face in the United States. The empirical results show that the skill decline did indeed halt...."
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authors.lastname: Barrett
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006280:Health Workforce; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Data Collection; Data Sources; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Employment Status; Evaluation; Human Resources; Immigrants; Labor Force; Labor Migration; Measurement; Migrants; Migration; North America; Northern America; Occupational Status; Population; Population Dynamics; Qualitative Evaluation; Reliability; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; United States