Journal article
Recent Trends in the Skill Composition of Legal U.S. Immigrants
Southern economic journal, Vol.72(4), pp.938-957
04/01/2006
DOI: 10.2307/20111862
Abstract
We examine fluctuations in the predicted educational attainment of newly arrived legal U.S. immigrants between 1972 and 1999 by combining data from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service with the Current Population Survey. A mid-1980s decline gave way to a noticeable improvement in the skill base of the immigrant population between 1987 and 1993. A short decline in the quality of immigrant skills - less severe than that of the mid-1980s - took place in the mid-1990s. In 1998, the trend reverses once more: The labor market quality of new legal U.S. immigrants improves. The primary sources of the fluctuations include changes in the quality and quantity of immigrants obtaining an adjustment and variations in the distribution of source regions and entry class types among new legal U.S. immigrants.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Recent Trends in the Skill Composition of Legal U.S. Immigrants
- Creators
- Linnea PolgreenNicole B. Simpson
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Southern economic journal, Vol.72(4), pp.938-957
- DOI
- 10.2307/20111862
- ISSN
- 0038-4038
- eISSN
- 2325-8012
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2006
- Academic Unit
- Economics; Pharmacy Practice and Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984365889102771
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