Vong, HL (2024) The Wage Gap between Immigrants and Native-born Americans in the United States. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Over the last several decades, the United States is one of the most popular destinations for international migrants with the number of immigrants increasing dramatically. A number of people immigrate to the U.S. because of economic factors. Thus, the study investigates the wage gap between immigrants and native-born Americans in the U.S. over four chosen years from 2000 to 2022. I conclude that there is a positive relationship between the duration of residency in the U.S. and the earnings of immigrants. In addition, English-speaking fluency and educational attainment play a role in determining one’s wage in the U.S. labor market. While this study takes no account of the effect of selective out-migration and return migration as well as country of origin of the immigrants. Future research can look into the wage differences among immigrants from different parts of the world, and take account of self-selection in out-migration.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Remund, A.P.P. |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2024 10:40 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2024 10:40 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4584 |
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