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Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans
Antman, Francisca; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen - 2022
, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U …, is sizable and selective on health, making subsequent generations of Mexican immigrants appear less healthy than they … actually are. Consequently, conventional estimates of health disparities between Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites as …
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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010
Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137316
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Immigrant Assimilation into U.S. Prisons, 1900-1930
Moehling, Carolyn M. - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081256
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Is the New Immigration Really so Bad?
Card, David - 2021
This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218827
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The Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 2021
This paper analyzes the intergenerational mobility of immigrants. Using the 1940-1970 Censuses, the study reveals an important link between the earnings of immigrants and the earnings of their American-born children. Although there is some regression towards the mean, the earnings of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228985
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Multigenerational Effects of Early Life Health Shocks
Cook, C. Justin; Fletcher, Jason; Forgues, Angela - 2021
A large literature has documented links between harmful early life exposures and later life health and socioeconomic … educational, economic, and health outcomes.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315369
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Immigrant Group Size and Political Mobilization : Evidence from European Migration to the United States
Shertzer, Allison - 2013
Immigration to democratic nations generates new groups of potential voters. This paper investigates how the electorate share of immigrant groups influences their likelihood of becoming politically mobilized, focusing on the mechanism of coalition formation with the Democratic Party. Using newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086303
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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States
Collins, William J. - 2018
decline in the observable human capital of famine-era Irish migrants compared to pre-famine Irish migrants and to other groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907451
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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States—looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011111
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Working Their Way Up? Us Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration
Collins, William J. - 2019
Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of linked census records show that immigrants experienced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860434