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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...

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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

evidence of a clear impact on fertility …

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The Fertility of Immigrant Women : Evidence from High Fertility Source Countries

Blau, Francine D. - 1991

Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … immigration to the U.S. Perhaps the most interesting finding of this study is that immigrants from these on average high fertility …

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Does Culture Matter?

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

issues, including female labor force participaiton, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …

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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations

Blau, Francine D. - 2008

Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor … by the immigrant generation's levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from … evidence that suggests our findings for fertility and labor supply are due to at least in part to intergenerational …

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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations …

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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...

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Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety

Gonçalves, Felipe M.; Jácome, Elisa; Weisburst, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How does immigration enforcement affect public safety? Heightened enforcement could reduce crime by deterring and incapacitating immigrant offenders or, alternatively, increase crime by discouraging victims from reporting offenses. We study the U.S. Secure Communities program, which expanded...

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Homeward Bound : How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...

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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....

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