Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality

Table 3 Labor market outcomes, age, and education, by nativity and by race

First-generation black immigrants
	Caribbean-English	Caribbean-Spanish	Haiti	African-English	African-French	African-Other	Other immig.
Weekly wage	$920	$709	$707	$979	$676	$805	$720
Work hours	40.9	40.4	39.8	41.9	40.0	40.5	40.3
Age	40.4	37.5	40.3	39.7	37.4	37.3	35.5
Education	12.9	11.3	12.4	14.9	13.6	13.4	12.2
Dropout	0.1265	0.3031	0.2022	0.0193	0.1059	0.1060	0.2293
High school	0.3752	0.3682	0.3508	0.1861	0.2467	0.2336	0.3268
Some college	0.2760	0.1946	0.2713	0.2438	0.2214	0.3302	0.2104
College degree	0.1514	0.0980	0.1279	0.3108	0.2804	0.2067	0.1478
Graduate degree	0.0709	0.0362	0.0479	0.2399	0.1455	0.1235	0.0857
N	2757	1134	1407	1528	74	1511	1976
Native-born
	Non-Hispanic black	Hispanic black	White
Weekly wage	$786	$749	$1,134
Work hours	39.96	39.46	41.99
Age	37.43	33.36	38.80
Education	12.82	12.36	13.56
Dropout	0.1220	0.1764	0.0902
High school	0.4178	0.3945	0.3207
Some college	0.3043	0.3181	0.2925
College degree	0.1153	0.0934	0.1993
Graduate degree	0.0406	0.0176	0.0972
N	63,185	1186	626,545
Second-generation black Immigrants
Weekly wage	$793	$827	$533	$686	$643	$966	$747
Work hours	37.79	39.10	34.92	34.68	38.15	39.28	38.41
Age	29.74	32.10	25.48	26.66	32.14	32.45	31.57
Education	13.62	13.10	13.06	13.96	14.79	13.43	13.29
Dropout	0.0735	0.1229	0.1040	0.0884	0.0000	0.1274	0.1253
High school	0.2566	0.2880	0.2606	0.1350	0.1799	0.3180	0.3085
Some college	0.3952	0.3939	0.4509	0.4167	0.2762	0.2439	0.3176
College degree	0.1823	0.1384	0.1550	0.2658	0.3764	0.2241	0.1728
Graduate degree	0.0924	0.0568	0.0295	0.0941	0.1675	0.0866	0.0758
N	823	373	238	213	8	82	837

Source: author’s calculations, March CPS, 1994–2013. Sample is restricted to men with positive wages