naa a22 4500 510809391 CHVBK 20180411083435.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12134-012-0262-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12134-012-0262-4 Human Capital and the Economic Assimilation of Recent Immigrants in Hong Kong [Elektronische Daten] [Dongshu Ou, Suet-ling Pong] Using data from the 1996, 2001, and 2006years of the Hong Kong Population Census, this paper reported the nativity earnings gap among a synthetic cohort of immigrant and native male Chinese employees in Hong Kong. Consistent with previous research, we found earnings divergence for all workers. However, this earnings divergence masked a reverse trend for low-skilled workers. Over time, low-skilled immigrant workers gained earnings assimilation with low-skilled native workers, but high-skilled immigrant workers did not gain assimilation with high-skilled native workers. A decomposition analysis suggested that the relative skill prices cannot explain the overtime change in the relative mean-earnings gaps by nativity. Further separating pre- and postmigration education of immigrants did not improve the explanatory power of the relative skill prices. Our results for Hong Kong are consistent with the findings from recent research on the economic assimilation of low-skilled immigrants in other countries. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 Immigrants nationallicence Earnings differentials nationallicence Returns to skills nationallicence Hong Kong nationallicence Ou Dongshu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 413 Ho Tim Building, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong aut Pong Suet-ling The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Penn State University, 417 Ho Tim Building, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong aut Journal of International Migration and Integration Springer Netherlands 14/4(2013-11-01), 689-710 1488-3473 14:4<689 2013 14 12134 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0262-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0262-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ou Dongshu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 413 Ho Tim Building, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pong Suet-ling The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Penn State University, 417 Ho Tim Building, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of International Migration and Integration Springer Netherlands 14/4(2013-11-01), 689-710 1488-3473 14:4<689 2013 14 12134 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer