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Issues in the economics of immigration
Borjas, George J. (ed.) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001390807
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Faith and Assimilation : Italian Immigrants in the US
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrants' assimilation in host societies? This paper offers the first systematic answer to this question by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved to America, and anti-Catholic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191097
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Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration
Collins, William J. - 2019
the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the … immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and 1920s. We develop new datasets of linked census records for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480358
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The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Markets
LaLonde, Robert J. - 1990
This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the first ten years experience in the united States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475474
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453320
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Cultural Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456296
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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388829
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Mexican immigration to the United States
Borjas, George J. (ed.) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480762
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Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation : A comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890
Haines, Michael R. - 1989
This paper utilizes household-level budget data from the 1889/90 United States Commissioner of Labor survey to estimate the full Almost Ideal Demand System with demographic and other covariates. Price data were obtained from the Aldrich Report of 1892. The purpose is to make better use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475994
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Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
immigration. We document the importance of this selection bias in the French labor market, where women accounted for a rapidly … change the wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little … between immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages …
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