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Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2 … recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged …
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Using two million census records, we document cultural assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration, a formative period in US history. Immigrants chose less foreign names for children as they spent more time in the US, eventually closing half of the gap with natives. Many immigrants also...
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skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a sharp increase in the proportion of … complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in both the pseudo-longitudinal and … increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no differential immigrant-native changes in higher …
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of Irish Famine immigration and was at the forefront of industrialization in the United States. Voters in towns with more …
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United States maintained open borders. Using a novel dataset of Norway-to-US migrants, we estimate the return to migration … while accounting for migrant selection across households by comparing migrants with their brothers who stayed in Norway. We … also compare the fathers of migrants and non-migrants by wealth and occupation, and examine migrants' assimilation in the …
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We provide the first estimates of ethnic segregation between 1850 and 1940 that cover the entire United States and are consistent across time and space. To do so, we adapt the Logan-Parman method to immigrants by measuring segregation based on the nativity of the next-door neighbor. In addition...
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This paper examines the effect of ethnic enclaves on economic outcomes of Norwegian immigrants in 1910 and 1920, the later part of the Age of Mass Migration. Using different identification strategies, including county fixed effects and an instrumental variables strategy based on chain migration,...
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Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who … moving to the US. Upon returning to Norway, return migrants held higher-paid occupations than Norwegians who never moved … despite being negatively selected, return migrants were able to accumulate savings and improve their economic circumstances …
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