Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance
This paper synthesizes two models of immigrant assimilation: “positive assimilation” if earnings rise with duration as destination-relevant skills are acquired and “negative assimilation” if immigrants with highly transferable skills experience declining earnings as their economic rent diminishes. H...
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University of Chicago Press
2012
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| Online Access: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664794 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17619 |