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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States
Lin, Carl - 2013
mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been … education. Rising U.S.-earned degrees by CHT migrants can account for this relatively successful economic assimilation. Cohort … analysis shows that the economic performance of CHT migrants admitted to the U.S. has been improving, even allowing for the …
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Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States
Peri, Giovanni - 2020
Using data from the United States spanning the period between 1970 and 2017, we analyze the economic assimilation of subsequent arrival cohorts of Mexican and Central American immigrants, the more economically disadvantaged group of immigrants. We compare their wage and employment probability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840998
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043686
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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2010
likely to be kidnapped, smuggled, or raped when crossing illegally. If migration costs are not the same for all migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144382
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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2021
migration, as distinct from being purely economic migrants. That the same pattern exists across three censuses suggests that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318316
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996551
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Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2011
There are two complementary models of immigrants' economic and social adjustment - the positive assimilation model of Chiswick (1978, 1979), and the negative assimilation model of Chiswick and Miller (2011). The negative assimilation model is applicable for immigrants from countries that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131423
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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited : It's Probably Who You are, Not Who You Marry!
Nekby, Lena - 2010
For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local human capital such a union creates in the form of improved knowledge about host country institutions, language and customs as well as access to native spouses' networks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135828
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Assimilation and Integration of Immigrants in Europe
Aleksynska, Mariya - 2010
This paper documents assimilation of immigrants in European destinations along cultural, civic, and economic dimensions, distinguishing by immigrants' generation, duration of stay, and origin. Based on the European Social Survey, it suggests that assimilation may have multiple facets, and take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137799
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Location Choices of Migrant Nest-Leavers : Spatial Assimilation or Continued Segregation?
Zorlu, Aslan - 2010
We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the Netherlands. The analysis provides little evidence of a clear intergenerational break in the location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138738