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Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be …
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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area … increases intergenerational income mobility among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances …
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This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues …
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of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and … exploiting within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education in moderating the …
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This paper reviews the evidence on the effects of less-skilled immigration to the U.S., and their implications for … immigration reform. It begins with a review of the costs of less-skilled immigration, in terms of competition to native …-born American workers; and the benefits of such immigration in the form of lower consumer prices, higher employer profits, and …
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The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
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immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long … higher education attainment are less likely to choose self-employment, the probability is relatively higher in comparison to … the non-citizen immigrant group with similar levels of education. This trend lends itself to a more than proportionate …
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The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454305
accompanied by new restrictions on family-based immigration. Moreover, it is misleading to think that only employment …
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