How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?

32 Pages Posted: 4 Dec 2013

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Carl Lin

Bucknell University; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Abstract

This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play pivotal roles for their relatively successful economic assimilation. We investigate the earnings differentials, finding that the growing gap can be largely explained by differences in individual's endowments – of which more than two-thirds can be solely attributed to education. We show that more recently arrival cohorts of Taiwanese immigrants have earned more than the older ones since 1980.

Keywords: Taiwan, immigration, economic assimilation, earnings differential, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition

JEL Classification: J31, J61

Suggested Citation

Lin, Carl, How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?. IZA Discussion Paper No. 7748, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2363235 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2363235

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