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How technological change and globalization are driving higher wages of immigrants married to natives.

Furtado, Delia and Song, Tao (2015) How technological change and globalization are driving higher wages of immigrants married to natives. USApp - American Politics and Policy Blog (21 Dec 2015). Website.

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Abstract

Recent waves of immigrants into the US have tended to have lower wages compared to native-born workers, something that can be at least partially attributed to native-born workers’ generally better communication and interpersonal skills. In new research, Delia Furtado and Tao Song find that the wage premium for immigrants married to native-born Americans has risen from 1.4 to 10.3 percent over the past 30 years. They argue that this increasing wage premium has been driven by changes in technology and globalization which have resulted in larger payoffs to the people skills of immigrants married to natives relative to those married to other immigrants.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information: © 2015 The Author(s) CC BY-NC 3.0
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
J Political Science > JC Political theory
J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
T Technology > T Technology (General)
Date Deposited: 08 May 2017 11:59
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 20:04
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/75924

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