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Socioeconomic Integration of U.S. Immigrant Groups Over the Long Term : The Second Generation and Beyond

Duncan, Brian - 2018

In this chapter, we document generational patterns of educational attainment and earnings for contemporary immigrant groups. We also discuss some potentially serious measurement issues that arise when attempting to track the socioeconomic progress of the later-generation descendants of U.S....

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The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Markets

LaLonde, Robert; Topel, Robert H. - 2022

This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the first ten years experience in the united States...

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America's Settling Down : How Better Jobs and Falling Immigration Led to a Rise in Marriage, 1880 - 1930

Cvrcek, Tomas - 2010

The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since … 1960. However, both trends were already present between 1900 and 1960, during which time marriage became increasingly … one demographic. First, men's improving labor market prospects made them more attractive as marriage partners to women …

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Working Their Way Up? Us Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

Collins, William J. - 2019

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of linked census records show that immigrants experienced...

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Cultural Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky, Ran - 2016

Using two million census records, we document cultural assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration, a formative period in US history. Immigrants chose less foreign names for children as they spent more time in the US, eventually closing half of the gap with natives. Many immigrants also...

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High-Skilled Immigration and the Rise of Stem Occupations in U.S. Employment

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we review patterns of U.S. employment in STEM occupations among workers with at least a college degree. These patterns mirror the cycle of boom and bust in the U.S. technology...

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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

Bitler, Marianne P. - 2011

Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...

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Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States

Borjas, George J. - 2010

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...

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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention

Moser, Petra - 2014

Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...

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Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born

Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2021

For each year of work under the Social Security System, immigrants realize higher benefits than U.S. born, even when their earnings are identical in all years the immigrant has been in the U.S.. Two features of the social security benefit calculation are responsible: the social security benefit...

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