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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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The transmission of women's fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - 2008
Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2008
of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268855
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How much does immigration boost innovation?
Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - 2009
in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …
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The economic diversity of immigration across the United States
Friedberg, Rachel M.; Jaeger, David A. - 2009
about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the … immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269536
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Mexican immigrants, the labor market and the current population survey: seasonality effects, framing effects, and sensitivity of results
Lozano, Fernando Antonio; Sorensen, Todd A. - 2008
produce seasonality effects that differentially affect the composition of recent and earlier migrants, thereby changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276777
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The human capital (schooling) of immigrants in America
Smith, James P. - 2012
diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290024
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely … legalization programs mandated by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 led to a stronger propensity to settle permanently …
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two …-religion relationship, immigration policies and concepts? The main findings are the following: (a) immigrants are indeed more religious than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282226
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262373