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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000 : A Preliminary Report

Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2004

Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States since 1965 appear to have made a very …

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The linguistic and economic adjustment of Soviet Jewish immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000

Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2005

migration, as distinct from being purely economic migrants. That the same pattern exists across three censuses suggests that the … similar to the patterns found among Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants appear to have made a very …

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Immigrant networks and US bilateral trade : the role of immigrant income

Mundra, Kusum - 2010

-2000. We find that the immigrants' income, mostly through the demand effect, has a significant negative effect on US imports …. However, if we include the effect of the immigrant income interacted with the size of the immigrant network, measured by the … immigrant stock, we find that the higher the immigrant income the lower is the immigrant network effect for both US exports and …

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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

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Self-Employment and Earnings Among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2021

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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018

The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...

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Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2011

There are two complementary models of immigrants' economic and social adjustment - the positive assimilation model of Chiswick (1978, 1979), and the negative assimilation model of Chiswick and Miller (2011). The negative assimilation model is applicable for immigrants from countries that are...

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Wage assimilation of immigrants and internal migrants : the role of linguistic distance

Strøm, Steinar; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, Alessandra - In: Regional studies 52 (2018) 10, pp. 1423-1434

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Language assimilation and performance in achievement tests among immigrant children : evidence from a field experiment

Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2018

We provide new evidence about language assimilation and its effect on test scores using data from two rounds (conducted approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of the NIS interviews, U.S. born and foreign-born children of immigrants were asked to take...

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