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Education and self-employment : South Asian immigrants in the US labor market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014
immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …
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Immigration to the United States : recent trends and future prospects
Hirschman, Charles - In: Malaysian journal of economic studies 51 (2014) 1, pp. 69-85
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900 - 1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2015
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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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484085
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
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
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Changing sex-ratios among immigrant communities in the U.S.
Hernández Catañeda, Adriana; Sørensen, Todd A. - 2018
immigration to the United States. We approach this study from two different dimensions to document some of the forces driving this … change in the sex-ratio. The first approach, focusing on changes between birth cohorts, demonstrates that immigration is …
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The body mass index assimilation of US immigrants : do diet and exercise contribute?
Basu, Sukanya; Insler, Michael A. - In: Eastern economic journal 44 (2018) 3, pp. 337-363
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198461
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199826
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Work and occupational profile of Eastern African immigrants in the United States : a historical overview
Woldeab, Daniel; Yawson, Robert; Woldeab, Irina - In: Human resource development international : HRDI 22 (2019) 3, pp. 305-315
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