,Changing Patterns in the Relative Economic Performance of Immigrants to Great Britain and the U.S., 1980-2000

Changing Patterns in the Relative Economic Performance of Immigrants to Great Britain and the U.S., 1980-2000


 

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Publisher: Center for Economic and Policy Research

Author(s): John Schmitt; Jonathan Wadsworth

Research Area: Population and demographics

Keywords: Wage inequality; Labor markets; Economic convergence

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This report examines changes in the pace of the economic assimilation of immigrants over the last three decades. The evidence suggests that immigrants lagged farther behind U.S.-born workers in 2000, than they had in 1990 and 1980.