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considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … expenditures. We specify and estimate a multiple factor model. The correlation between answers to questions on immigration and on …
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This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to...
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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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studying how Mexican immigration to the US affected White Americans' attitudes and behaviors towards Black Americans. We … the theory, Mexican immigration improves Whites' racial attitudes, increases support for pro-Black government policies and …
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We provide evidence that Hispanic citizens receive significantly longer sentences than non-Hispanic citizens in the Federal Criminal Justice System in the United States when a higher number of illegal aliens are apprehended along the southwest border. Apprehensions can increase the salience of...
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sons primarily enjoy this advantage in countries with long histories of immigration. Cross-country differences in absolute … mobility are not driven by parental country-of-origin, but instead by destination labor markets and immigration policy. …
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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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to differences in immigration history and levels of ethnic segregation. Therefore, the local context matters for spatial …
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experienced little change in the heterogeneity of their populations. We examine impacts of immigration on welfare benefit rates of … there is limited evidence of increased immigration on any of these types other than families with children. Even in this …
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