Language Skills and the Earnings Distribution Among Child Immigrants

Language Skills and the Earnings Distribution Among Child Immigrants

In this paper, we estimate the language effects on the earnings distribution among child immigrants. Utilizing U.S. Census data, we find: (1) there exists a larger heterogeneity in language premiums across the earnings distribution, and the patterns change over time (2) occupation and education chan...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Industrial relations (Berkeley) 2011-04, Vol.50 (2), p.297-322
Hauptverfasser: WANG, CHUNBEI, WANG, LE
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Children
Children & youth
Earnings
Estimation
Human capital
Immigrants
Income
Income distribution
Language
Language proficiency
Language Shift
Languages
Noncitizens
Occupations
Skills
Studies
U.S.A
United States
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:In this paper, we estimate the language effects on the earnings distribution among child immigrants. Utilizing U.S. Census data, we find: (1) there exists a larger heterogeneity in language premiums across the earnings distribution, and the patterns change over time (2) occupation and education channels explain most of the language effects and the large heterogeneity in them. However, the importance of these two channels has decreased over time.
ISSN:0019-8676
1468-232X
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.2011.00637.x