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achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high … opportunities than natives to achieve high schooling degrees. These findings suggest a rejection of the failed integration …
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issue even with the improved questionnaire. -- immigration ; intergenerational progress ; ethnic identity ; Hispanics …
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.S., including weight, height, the body mass index (BMI), asthma and depression for both natives and immigrants. We show that both …, immigrants experience higher persistence than natives in weight and BMI. We also find that mothers' education decreases children …'s weight and BMI for natives, while single motherhood increases weight and BMI for both native and immigrant children. Finally …
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child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … indicate that up to 21% of the gap between income ranks of second-generation immigrants and natives is related to differences … mobility is relatively high in Estonia both for natives and children of foreign-born, the native-immigrant earnings gap has not …
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This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants …, and the impact of immigration on the wages and employment opportunities of native workers. We show that low …, this is not the case. Finally, we survey the pertinent academic literature and conclude that, on the whole, immigration to …
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natives and other migrants, they are less likely to work than natives and other migrants upon arrival to Spain. Using data …
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This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing … discuss the disadvantage of immigrants and their children relative to natives. We show that immigrants – in particular those … from non-EU countries – are severely disadvantaged in most countries, even if we compare them to natives with the same …
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This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868798
-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …
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