The labor market skills of recent male immigrants: evidence from the current population survey.
Using data from special supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS), the authors track the education and hourly earnings of recent male immigrants to the United States. In terms of these measures of labor market skills, the CPS data suggest that immigrants who came in the late 1980s were mor...
| Publicado en: | Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 48; pp. 792 - 812 |
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Cornell University
July 1995
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