A Longitudinal Analysts of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W.

doi:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2005.tb00269.x

“…This study is also consistent with the findings of a longitudinal analysis of immigrant occupational adjustment to the Australian labor market (Chiswick and Miller 2005).…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 80%

Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis

Chiswick¹,

Lee²,

Miller³

2005

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“…There is a literature on a U-shaped pattern of occupational change for migrants, from their last job in the origin country to their first and then subsequent jobs in the destination country (e.g. Chiswick et al 2005, Akresh, 2008, but the pattern in Figure 2 is much more of a reverse-J where occupational status falls with migration and never recovers.…”

Section: Impacts Of Migration On Other Individual Outcomes For the MImentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is a large literature that examine assimilation by comparing the income and career trajectories of migrants to natives (e.g. Chiswick et al, 2005;Akresh, 2008). However, the appropriate counterfactual for our question of interest requires examining the longer-term income and occupation paths of migrants to what these would have been had they stayed in their home countries.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Long-term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery

Gibson¹,

McKenzie²,

Rohorua

³

et al. 2017

The World Bank Economic Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SThe Long- The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public.IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 9492 November 2015 ABSTRACTThe Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery *We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be similar in magnitude to the gain in the first year, despite migrants upgrading their education and changing their locations and occupations. This results in large sustained benefits to their immediate family, who have substantially higher consumption, durable asset ownership, savings, and dietary diversity. In contrast we find no measureable impact on extended family.JEL Classification: F22, O15

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“…There is also the question of the duration of the migration period, as initially migrants may lack the requisite nationally specific human capital (language skills, cultural expectations of customers etc.) to utilise their skills fully (Chiswick, Lee, and Miller 2005). Indeed, they may move into sectors such as hotels, as low wage, shortterm 'stepping stones' to better paid, more skilful jobs in the medium term (Williams 2009;Tilly and Tilly 1997).…”

Section: International Migrant Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%