We provide the first estimates of ethnic segregation between 1850 and 1940 that cover the entire United States and are … consistent across time and space. To do so, we adapt the Logan-Parman method to immigrants by measuring segregation based on the … nativity of the next-door neighbor. In addition to providing a consistent measure of segregation, we also document new patterns …

Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a … segregation, controlling for individual characteristics and both metropolitan area and country-of-origin fixed effects, we … may illuminate some of the causal mechanisms relating segregation to outcomes …

This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and … 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades … segregation, as well as housing price patterns across metropolitan areas, to test four hypotheses of immigrant segregation …

Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2 … recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged …

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

in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …