%0 Report
        %A Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
%A Hanel, Barbara
%A McVicar, Duncan
        %T Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods
        %D 2012
        %8 2012 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7062
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7062
        %X We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore suffered from a range of potential biases. We find that a fixed-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by cross-sectional and synthetic cohort methods. However, there are no significant differences in the wage assimilation profiles across alternative methods.
        %K immigration
%K immigrant assimilation
%K employment
%K wages
%K Australia