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Hispanic Ethnicity, English‐Skill Investments, and Earnings[Note 1. Professor Dvila gratefully acknowledges support from the Neuhaus Center ...]
Author(s) -
Dávila Alberto,
Mora Marie T.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/0019-8676.00197
Subject(s) - microdata (statistics) , earnings , fluency , ethnic group , pace , demographic economics , economics , psychology , demography , political science , geography , census , sociology , population , accounting , mathematics education , geodesy , law
Analyzing synthetic cohorts in the 1980 and 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples, we find that Mexican‐Americans and other Hispanics acquired English fluency at a faster pace than Puerto Ricans and Cuban‐Americans during the 1980s. Additional results indicate that English‐skill investments differently influenced the earnings distributions of these ethnic groups.