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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children

Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2009

A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...

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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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Interethnic marriages and economic assimilation of immigrants

Kantarevic, Jasmin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.

Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019

This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...

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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. - 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...

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Immigration : what about the children and grandchildren?

Sweetman, Arthur; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014

Intergenerational immigrant integration is central to the economic growth and social development of many countries whose populations comprise a substantial share of the children and grandchildren of immigrants. In addition to basic demographics, relevant economic theories and institutional...

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Economic assimilation of the "third generation": an intergenerational mobility perspective on immigration and integration

Zorlu, Aslan; Gent, Wouter van - 2020

-generation "migrants." Using rich register data for adult children aged 20 to 30, we provide empirical evidence on the economic …

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Unexpected colonial returns : self-selection and economic integration of migrants over multiple generations

Gielen, Anne C.; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2023

selection of migrants. We exploit this historical episode to study the relationship between the self-selection of migrants and … their long-term economic integration over three generations. 'Beat-the-ban' migrants, those arriving just before the ban …, are negatively selected compared to economic migrants arriving earlier. This difference in selection is reflected in the …

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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in Germany : moving with natives or stuck in their neighborhoods?

Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009

In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than...

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Can an ethnic group climb up from the bottom of the ladder?

Epstein, Gil S.; Siniver, Erez - 2012

Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581392

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