Cuban immigrants in the United States: what determines their earnings distribution?

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Published: 2016-12-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22395/seec.v19n41a1
Keywords:
Cuban migration, Earnings distribution, Cuban workers in U.S, Socioeconomic characteristics, Quantile Regression, Immigrants workers, Cuba.

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Vol. 19 No. 41 (2016)

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Aleida Cobas-Valdés
University of the Basque Country image/svg+xml
Ana Fernández-Sainz
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Stephen Wilkinson

Abstract

In this paper the conditional earnings distribution of Cuban immigrants in the U.S. using OLS and Quantile Regression is analyzed. The data used in the study come from the 2011 American Community Survey (ACS) in the U.S. provided by IPUMS (2011). The results show that increments in earnings associated with different socioeconomic characteristics such as: sex, marital status, ethnicity, proficiency in English and education vary across the earnings distribution.

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Cobas-Valdés, A., Fernández-Sainz, A., & Wilkinson, S. (2016). Cuban immigrants in the United States: what determines their earnings distribution?. Semestre Económico, 19(41), 19-36. https://doi.org/10.22395/seec.v19n41a1

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Aleida Cobas-Valdés, University of the Basque Country

Researcher at Institute of Public Economic. University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. Avenida Lehendakari Aguirre 81, 48015. Bilbao. Bizkaia, Spain

Ana Fernández-Sainz, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

Full Professor of Econometrics, Department of Econometrics and Statistics (Applied Economic III). University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU., Spain.

Stephen Wilkinson

Associate Lecturer, Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences King’s College London School of Medicine 4th Floor, Capital House, 42 Weston Street LONDON, U.K.