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    Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

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    Authors
    Chiswick, Barry
    Miller, Paul
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Chiswick, Barry and Miller, Paul. 2012. Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance. Journal of Human Capital 6 (1): pp. 35-55.
    Source Title
    Journal of Human Capital
    Additional URLs
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664794
    ISSN
    1932-8575
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    © 2012 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17619
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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. Hypotheses are developed and tested with earnings of adult male immigrants in the 2000 U.S. Census. “Linguistic distance” from English of an immigrant’s mother tongue is the index of skill transferability. Only immigrants from English-speaking developed countries experience negative assimilation. Immigrants from other countries experience positive assimilation, the degree of assimilation increasing with linguistic distance.

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