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Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born

Gustman, Alan L. - 1998

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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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States

Borjas, George J. - 1991

immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …

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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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Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration

Collins, William J. - 2019

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 1920s. We develop new datasets of linked census records for …

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The Immigrant Next Door : Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Chaney, Thomas; Hassan, Tarek A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study how decades-long exposure to individuals of a given foreign descent shapes natives' attitudes and behavior toward that group, exploiting plausibly exogenous shocks to the ancestral composition of US counties. We combine several existing large-scale surveys, cross-county data on implicit...

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Does Scientist Immigration Harm US Science? An Examination of Spillovers

Agrawal, Ajay - 2018

The recruitment of foreign scientists enhances US science through an expanded workforce but could also cause harm by displacing better connected domestic scientists, thereby reducing localized knowledge spillovers. We develop a model in which a sufficient condition for the absence of overall...

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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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Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2009

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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Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come From, and Why?

Clark, Ximena - 2002

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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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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