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Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation : Earnings Premiums Among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives

Furtado, Delia - 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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Immigration Enforcement and Childhood Poverty in the United States

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2016

Over the past two decades immigration enforcement has grown exponentially in the United States. We exploit the geographical and temporal variation in a novel index of the intensity of immigration enforcement between 2005 and 2011 to show how the average yearly increase in interior immigration...

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Do Foreigners Crowd Natives Out of Stem Degrees and Occupations? Evidence from the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990

Ransom, Tyler - 2016

This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree completion and labor market outcomes for native-born Americans. The Act increased the in-flow and stock of foreign STEM workers in the U.S., both by increasing green...

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Please Call Me John : Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 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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How Do Latin American Migrants in the U.S. Stand on Schooling Premium? What Does it Reveal About Education Quality in Their Home Countries?

Alonso-Soto, Daniel - 2017

Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...

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Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007

This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...

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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes : A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2006

The educational and labor market outcomes of the first, first-and-a-half, second and third generations of immigrants to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy...

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Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000

Jaeger, David A. - 2006

This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas (quot;green cardsquot;) choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to...

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Settling for Academia? H-1b Visas and the Career Choices of International Students in the United States

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2016

For the first time since the inception of the H-1B visa, yearly caps became binding in 2004, making it harder for most foreign-born students to secure employment in the United States. However, since the year 2000, institutions of higher education and related non-profit research institutes had...

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Too Cold to Venture There? January Temperature and Immigrant Self-Employment Across the United States

Lee, Jun; Winters, John V. - 2022

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …, we document that immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across areas of the USA. Our main measure is the … other areas of the USA. This relationship holds for numerous sub-samples of immigrants and is not driven by any particular …

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