Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality

Mason, Patrick L.

doi:10.1186/s40176-016-0065-z

Table 2 Immigrant cohorts, age-on-arrival, and educational attainment by nativity

From: Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality

	Caribbean-English	Caribbean-Spanish	Haiti	African-English	African-French	African-Oth lng	Other immigrants
Cohort
Arrived pre-1965	0.0267	0.0390	0.0091	0.0055	0.0000	0.0013	0.0139
Arrived 1965–1974	0.1527	0.0970	0.0892	0.0597	0.0000	0.0277	0.0713
Arrived 1975–1981	0.1817	0.1410	0.203	0.1142	0.0568	0.0617	0.1298
Arrived 1982–1991	0.3646	0.2700	0.3231	0.2072	0.1121	0.2558	0.2972
Arrived 1992–2001	0.2171	0.2930	0.2901	0.3716	0.4068	0.4073	0.3639
Arrived 2002–2007	0.0486	0.1260	0.0662	0.1950	0.2485	0.1884	0.108
Arrived 2008–2013	0.0082	0.0350	0.0193	0.0458	0.1759	0.0566	0.0159
Age of immigrant on arrival in the USA
Child (≤12)	0.2263	0.2030	0.1564	0.0739	0.0151	0.0686	0.1633
Adolescent (13–17)	0.1375	0.1400	0.1004	0.0557	0.0404	0.0767	0.1253
Emerging adult (18–25)	0.2276	0.2690	0.2397	0.3370	0.2523	0.3102	0.3497
Young adult (26–34)	0.1905	0.2020	0.2579	0.2480	0.5052	0.2793	0.1783
Advanced adult (35–44)	0.1051	0.0600	0.1181	0.1441	0.0812	0.1150	0.058
Middle-age (45–54)	0.0229	0.0240	0.0346	0.0376	0.0162	0.0308	0.0279
Senior (55–64)	0.0048	0.0050	0.0045	0.0042	0.0166	0.0087	0.0028
N	2759	1134	1407	1531	74	1512	1976
Educational attainment
	1994–2001		2002–2007		2008–2013
	Dropout	College	Dropout	College	Dropout	College
White	0.1095	0.2729	0.0891	0.3006	0.0656	0.3247
Black, 3rd generation+	0.1555	0.1327	0.1135	0.1597	0.0888	0.1806
Black, 2nd generation	0.1388	0.2315	0.1087	0.2373	0.0740	0.2795
Black, 1st generation	0.1880	0.2527	0.1627	0.2771	0.1247	0.2914
Cohort
Arrived pre-1965	0.0369	0.3520	0.088	0.4581	0.008	0.4607
Arrived 1965–1974	0.1093	0.3610	0.084	0.396	0.0703	0.4193
Arrived 1975–1981	0.2121	0.2720	0.138	0.3186	0.0959	0.3338
Arrived 1982–1991	0.2159	0.2230	0.152	0.2584	0.103	0.3372
Arrived 1992–2001	0.2109	0.1790	0.191	0.2411	0.1328	0.2616
Arrived 2002–2007	n.a.	n.a.	0.24	0.2456	0.1501	0.2321
Arrived 2008–2013	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	0.1872	0.2658

Source: author’s calculations, March CPS, 1994–2013. Sample is restricted to men with positive wages

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