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The End of American Exceptionalism? Mobility in the U.S. Since 1850
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2005
New longitudinal data on individuals linked across nineteenth century U.S. censuses document the geographic and occupational mobility of more than 75,000 Americans from the 1850s to the 1920s. Together with longitudinal data for more recent years, these data make possible for the first time...
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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2011
Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...
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Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States
Borjas, George J. - 2010
arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention
Moser, Petra - 2014
Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...
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Socioeconomic Integration of U.S. Immigrant Groups Over the Long Term : The Second Generation and Beyond
Duncan, Brian - 2018
In this chapter, we document generational patterns of educational attainment and earnings for contemporary immigrant groups. We also discuss some potentially serious measurement issues that arise when attempting to track the socioeconomic progress of the later-generation descendants of U.S....
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Generational Accounting and Immigration in the United States
Auerbach, Alan J.; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2021
In recent years, the renewed strength of immigration to the United States has sparked a debate about the economic … effects of immigration. A central issue in this debate has been the fiscal impact of immigrants. Most research in this area … fiscal responsibility' is followed, whether there is a fiscal gain from immigration depends on the extent to which government …
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Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2021
For each year of work under the Social Security System, immigrants realize higher benefits than U.S. born, even when their earnings are identical in all years the immigrant has been in the U.S.. Two features of the social security benefit calculation are responsible: the social security benefit...
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Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come from, and Why?
Clark, Ximena; Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
The United States has experienced rising immigration levels and changing source since the 1950s. The changes in source … have been attributed to the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration Act that abolished country-quotas and replaced them with a … US immigrants. Given this view, it seems all the more remarkable that the sources of immigration changed so dramatically …
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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States
Borjas, George J. - 2021
immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …
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