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The Changing Labor Market Position of Canadian Immigrants

Bloom, David E. - 1994

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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Socioeconomic Integration of U.S. Immigrant Groups over the Long Term : The Second Generation and Beyond

Duncan, Brian - 2018

In this chapter, we document generational patterns of educational attainment and earnings for contemporary immigrant groups. We also discuss some potentially serious measurement issues that arise when attempting to track the socioeconomic progress of the later-generation descendants of U.S....

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An Analysis of the Earnings of Canadian Immigrants

Bloom, David E. - 1989

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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New Evidence of Generational Progress for Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian - 2017

U.S.-born Mexican Americans suffer a large schooling deficit relative to other Americans, and standard data sources suggest that this deficit does not shrink between the 2nd and later generations. Standard data sources lack information on grandparents' countries of birth, however, which creates...

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Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans

Antman, Francisca M. - 2020

The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...

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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their...

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Immigrant Participation in the Welfare System

Borjas, George J. - 1990

This paper presents an empirical analysis of immigrant participation in the welfare system using the 1970 and 1980 U.S. Censuses. The availability of two cross-sections allows for identification of cohort and assimilation effects. The data indicate that recent immigrant cohorts use the welfare...

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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations : Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians

Duncan, Brian - 2016

Because of data limitations, virtually all studies of the later-generation descendants of immigrants rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification rather than arguably more objective measures based on the countries of birth of the respondent and his ancestors. In this context, biases...

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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...

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Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S : Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2015

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …

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