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Faith and Assimilation : Italian Immigrants in the US
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrants' assimilation in host societies? This paper offers the first systematic answer to this question by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved to America, and anti-Catholic...
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Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration
Collins, William J. - 2019
Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives as they gain experience is a fundamental question in the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480358
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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/10012480938
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The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Markets
LaLonde, Robert J. - 1990
This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the first ten years experience in the united States...
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453320
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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/10012459578
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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/10012459835
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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
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The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement : Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
Grossman, Daniel; Khalil, Umair; Panza, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the intergenerational health consequences of forced displacement and incarceration of Japanese Americans in the US during WWII. Incarcerated mothers had babies who were less healthy at birth. This decrease in health represents a shift in the entire birthweight distribution due to...
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The Social Integration of International Migrants : Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants' social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …
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