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This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and … 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades … segregation, as well as housing price patterns across metropolitan areas, to test four hypotheses of immigrant segregation …
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Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed ….S. to examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …
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This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state. The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of...
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This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current...
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We make use of a new data source - matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida - to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic...
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Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …
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