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The Roles of Assimilation and Ethnic Enclave Residence in Immigrant Smoking

Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2015

In this study we examine the importance of assimilation and ethnic enclave residence for smoking outcomes among United States immigrants. We draw data on over 140,000 immigrants from the Current Population Survey Tobacco Use Supplements between 1995 and 2011. Several patterns emerge from our...

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Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans

Antman, Francisca; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen - 2022

The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...

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The Language Ability of U.S. Immigrants : Assimilation and Cohort Effects

Carliner, Geoffrey - 2021

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census of Population to examine the English language skills of natives and immigrants. The first main finding is that lack of fluency in spoken English is rare among native- born Americans. In 1990, 98.4 % of natives aged 18 to 64 reported to the...

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American Indian Mortality in the Late Nineteenth Century : The Impact of Federal Assimilation Policies on a Vulnerable Population

Hacker, J. David - 2013

Under the urging of late nineteenth-century humanitarian reformers, U.S. policy toward American Indians shifted from removal and relocation efforts to state-sponsored attempts to quot;civilizequot; Indians through allotment of tribal lands, citizenship, and forced education. There is little...

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

Abramitzky, Ran - 2016

Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who … moving to the US. Upon returning to Norway, return migrants held higher-paid occupations than Norwegians who never moved … despite being negatively selected, return migrants were able to accumulate savings and improve their economic circumstances …

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The Ethnic Segregation of Immigrants in the United States from 1850 to 1940

Eriksson, Katherine - 2018

We provide the first estimates of ethnic segregation between 1850 and 1940 that cover the entire United States and are consistent across time and space. To do so, we adapt the Logan-Parman method to immigrants by measuring segregation based on the nativity of the next-door neighbor. In addition...

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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian - 2012

Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...

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Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building

Bazzi, Samuel - 2019

integration. In the 1980s, the government relocated two million ethnically diverse migrants into hundreds of new communities. We …

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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility

Borjas, George J. - 2022

This paper analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. I assume that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic...

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Culture and Language

Lazear, Edward P. - 2021

Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated and to learn the majority language so that they have a larger pool of potential trading partners. The value of assimilation is larger to someone from a small minority than to one...

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