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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018

earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the … inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that …

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"Golden ages" : a tale of the labor markets in China and the United States

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Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings

Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Navarro, Salvador - In: Oxford economic papers 57 (2005) 2, pp. 191-261

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Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings

Cunha, Flávio (contributor); Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2004

This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of variability in returns to schooling is...

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