The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration

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. "5 Immigration's Effects on Jobs and Wages: Empirical Evidence." The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997.

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TABLE 5.7 Educational Attainment and Wages of Immigrant Women in 1990, by National Origin Group

	Educational Attainment (years)		Percentage Wage Differential Between Immigrants and Natives
Country of Birth	All Immigrants	Pre-1980 Arrivals	All Immigrants	Pre-1980 Arrivals
Europe
Austria	13.5	13.5	17.4	17.1
Czechoslovakia	13.6	13.4	12.0	16.0
France	14.0	13.6	13.7	11.9
Germany	13.0	12.9	-0.3	-0.5
Greece	11.3	11.1	-1.1	-0.3
Hungary	13.3	13.2	17.7	20.9
Italy	10.5	10.3	2.6	1.5
Poland	12.3	12.0	-1.4	5.3
Portugal	8.3	8.4	-8.5	-6.1
U.S.S.R.	14.1	14.0	28.6	23.8
United Kingdom	13.3	13.2	7.9	7.5
Yugoslavia	11.1	10.9	6.0	7.3
Asia
Cambodia	8.8	10.0	-17.0	-12.0
China	11.7	12.1	-10.7	2.1
India	14.9	15.1	20.1	37.5
Iran	14.7	15.0	16.7	27.3
Japan	13.0	12.7	3.7	-0.6
Korea	12.6	12.8	2.2	10.0
Laos	8.2	8.4	-19.6	-16.2
Lebanon	13.2	12.8	17.6	13.3
Philippines	14.2	14.2	17.4	28.8
Taiwan	14.9	14.9	25.2	31.6
Vietnam	11.5	12.1	-1.8	1.0
North and South America
Argentina	13.2	13.2	11.3	17.7
Canada	13.5	13.4	16.3	14.9
Colombia	11.8	11.9	-7.0	-0.0
Cuba	12.1	12.4	-4.1	1.8
Dominican Republic	10.0	10.4	-11.1	-2.4
Ecuador	11.7	11.8	-7.2	-4.8
El Salvador	8.6	9.4	-24.8	-16.4
Guatemala	9.0	9.9	-28.0	-15.9
Haiti	11.1	12.3	-6.0	11.8
Jamaica	12.5	12.8	14.5	23.8
Mexico	8.3	8.5	-25.3	-22.4
Nicaragua	11.2	11.7	-20.8	-3.7
Panama	13.0	13.1	13.8	18.0
Peru	12.7	12.7	-1.8	8.6