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dc.contributor.authorChiswick, Barry
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:02:59Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:02:59Z
dc.date.created2013-03-07T20:00:33Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationChiswick, Barry and Miller, Paul. 2012. Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance. Journal of Human Capital 6 (1): pp. 35-55.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17619
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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.

dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Press
dc.relation.urihttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664794
dc.subjectLinguistic distance
dc.subjectskill transferability
dc.subjectimmigrant assimilation
dc.titleNegative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume6
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage35
dcterms.source.endPage55
dcterms.source.issn1932-8575
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Human Capital
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