RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 467
OP 489
DO 10.3368/jhr.38.3.467
VO 38
IS 3
A1 Trejo, Stephen J.
YR 2003
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/38/3/467.abstract
AB Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational improvements in years of schooling and English proficiency, but also from increased returns to human capital for Mexican-origin workers who were born and educated in the United States. Progress stalls after the second generation, however, as the modest gains in human capital that occur between the second and third generations fail to raise the average earnings of Mexican Americans.