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Immigration, naturalization, and the future of public education

Tanaka, Ryuichi; Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of … simulations we evaluate the effects of immigration on the size and quality of Spain's public education. Our main findings are as …

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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016

The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....

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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives

Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005- 2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...

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How do immigrants from Taiwan fare in the US labor market?

Lin, Carl - 2013

This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...

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From immigrants to Americans: race and assimilation during the Great Migration

Fouka, Vasiliki; Mazumder, Shom; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the US South to Northern urban centers, which were...

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An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries

Edo, Anthony; Ragot, Lionel; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020

effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …

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Do English skills affect Muslim immigrants' economic and social integration differentially?

Yuksel, Mutlu; Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Guven, Cahit - 2019

This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...

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The impact of xenophobic violence on the integration of immigrants

Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2018

Integration of immigrants is a two-way process involving immigrants and the host country society. An underexplored question is how events of xenophobic violence in the host country affect the integration of immigrants. For this purpose, I exploit a unique series of anti-immigrant attacks in the...

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Can public housing decrease segregation? : lessons and challenges from non-European immigration in France

Verdugo, Gregory; Toma, Sorana - 2018

Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the share of non-European immigrants in public housing in Europe, which has led to concern regarding the rise of "ghettos" in large cities. Using French census data over three decades, we examine how this increase in public housing participation has...

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Conflicting identities: cosmopolitan or anxious? : appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants

Heidland, Tobias; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2019

This paper connects insights from the literature on cosmopolitan values in political science, anxiety in social psychology, and identity economics in a vignette-style experiment. We asked German respondents about their attitudes towards a Syrian refugee, randomizing components of his description...

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