Multiple Choice
Suppose the age-wage profile of immigrants has been increasing over time. That is, the age-wage profile of immigrants in the 1990s is higher than the age-wage profile of immigrants in the 1980s, which is in turn higher than the wage-age profile of immigrants in the 1970s. In this case, if one uses cohort analysis to estimate the age-wage profile of immigrants, which of the following is possible to find?
A) a negative return to moving costs
B) a horizontal age-wage profile
C) a positively skewed wage distribution
D) a negatively skewed wage distribution
E) negatively selected immigration
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