Focuses on how the immigration and assimilation experience affects Hispanic earnings and on the measurement of wage differentials between Hispanics and non-Hispanics. Earnings of (some) Hispanic immigrants rise rapidly after immigration. Wage differential between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites is generally due to differences in observable skill characteristics.-from Author

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