Essays on Human Capital Attainment of Child Immigrants and Income Inequality

This thesis will investigate three topics of interest in the United States: adult labor market outcomes of child immigrants, i.e. the "1.5 generation", determinants of bilingualism among children, and finally, forecasts of income inequality. Together, these essays discuss the accumulation of human capital, its role in the determination of earnings for immigrants and native-born, and the implications of these changing patterns for inequality forecasting.

Author

• Gindelsky, Marina

Language

• en

Keyword

• acculturation
• income inequality
• age at migration
• child bilingualism
• immigrant children
• 1.5 generation

Date created

• 2016

Type of Work

• Dissertation

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Economics

Degree

• Ph.D.

Advisor

• Chiswick, Barry R.

Committee Member(s)

• Lowell, Lindsay
• Foster, James E.
• Sinclair, Tara M.
• Chiswick, Carmel

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/qv33rw77z