Melting Pot or Mosaic: The Impact of Social Sentiment on Immigrant-Native Wage Differentials
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2024
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Haverford College. Department of Economics
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Examining community survey and census data in the United States and Canada for increments of five years from 2001-2021, this study finds that environments that promote stronger assimilation (such as the US’ “melting pot”) provide immigrants with a shorter amount of time (around 6 years less) to close the immigrant-native wage gap than environments that don’t require strong assimilation (such as Canada’s “mosaic”). While rates of assimilation appear similar in both countries, the longer duration in Canada is due to a larger inherent wage gap between immigrants and natives. This pattern remains constant across several types of demographics, such as different ages at immigration, birthplaces and educational attainment levels.