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To the New World and Back Again : Return Migrants in the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky, Ran - 2016

We compile large datasets from Norwegian and US historical censuses to study return migration during the Age of Mass … Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who …

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Cultural Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky, Ran - 2016

Using two million census records, we document cultural assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration, a formative …

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The Adverse Effect of the Covid-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment

Borjas, George J. - 2020

Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly severe...

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Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2014

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food...

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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity : The Migration Connection

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2014

Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper … documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950 …

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Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy

Bisin, Alberto - 2019

We study the cultural integration of immigrants, estimating a structural model of marital matching along ethnic …

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Are Foreign Stem Phds More Entrepreneurial? Entrepreneurial Characteristics, Preferences and Employment Outcomes of Native and Foreign Science & Engineering Phd Students

Roach, Michael - 2019

Prior research has shown that immigrants make important contributions to US innovation and are more likely than natives to become entrepreneurs. However, there is little evidence on how foreign and native high-skilled workers differ prior to entering the workforce. Moreover, little attention has...

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Southern (American) Hospitality : Italians in Argentina and the Us During the Age of Mass Migration

Pérez, Santiago - 2019

the age of mass migration. Prior cross-sectional work finds that Italians had faster assimilation in Argentina, but it is … from passenger lists to censuses, enabling me to compare migrants with similar pre-migration characteristics. Italians had … better economic outcomes in Argentina, and this advantage was unlikely to be due to selection. Migration path dependence can …

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The Impact of Medicaid on Medical Utilization in a Vulnerable Population : Evidence from Cofa Migrants

Halliday, Timothy - 2019

In March 2015, the State of Hawaii stopped covering the vast majority of migrants from countries belonging to the Compact of Free Association (COFA) in the state Medicaid program. COFA migrants were instead required to obtain private insurance in the exchanges established under the Affordable...

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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the Us Over Two Centuries

Abramitzky, Ran - 2019

Using millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of US history, we find that children of immigrants from nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward mobility than children of the US-born. Immigrants' advantage is similar historically and today despite dramatic shifts...

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