title: Outmigration of U.S. immigrants.
abstract: "A methodology is devised for the empirical analysis of the determinants of outmigration of immigrants in a population. Empirical studies in this area have been hindered by a lack of longitudinal data on the characteristics of the immigrants. This problem is tackled by making use of cross-sectional data at two points in time. It is applied to the study of male immigrants in the United States. It is found that education is positively related to the rate of outmigration for immigrants from Canada, Asia and the pooled sample of immigrants. This finding suggests that the cross-sectional estimates of the growth in earnings of immigrants in the United States are underestimated for these groups of immigrants."
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Lam
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D001208:Asia; D002170:Canada; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004522:Educational Status; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D007182:Income; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Asia; Canada; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Immigrants; Income; International Migration--determinants; Migrants; Migration; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Dynamics; Return Migration; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; United States