This study examines how country-of-origin effects on the earnings of immigrant men change with the number of years immigrants have been in the United States. It uses two complementary methodologies: one examines the relationship between the country of origin (as a determinant of immigrant earnings) and immigrant time in the United States; the other examines whether the dispersion of earnings of demographically comparable immigrants, across different countries of origin, decreased over time. Both methodologies involved following sample cohorts across decennial censuses and are sensitive to biases caused by emigration. The study concludes with an examination of whether important results from these methodologies would support taking emigration into account.
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