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by the propensity of immigrant groups to be self-employed, if we limit our sample of immigrants to those from only Asian …
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This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and … 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades …-born children of immigrants could be consistently excluded from the analysis. We analyze longitudinal variation in immigrant …
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degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first …
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. The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other … programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of immigrant households receive some type of assistance, as compared to only …
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This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current...
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The analysis of a new dataset on state prisoners in the 1900 to 1930 censuses reveals that immigrants rapidly assimilated to native incarceration patterns. One feature of these data is that the second generation can be identified, allowing direct analysis of this group and allowing their...
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