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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 …

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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Faith and assimilation: Italian immigrants in the US

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

Ethnic religious organizations are often blamed for slowing down immigrants' assimilation in host societies. This paper offers the first systematic evidence on this topic by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians had moved to America,...

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The political effects of immigration: culture or economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of … immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why …. We start from the "standard" view that immigration triggers political backlash and raises support for nativist, anti …

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Chinese Immigrants in the United States : New Issues and Challenges

Hu, Xiaochu - 2016

This chapter aims at an overall portrait of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. using the most update data and information, identifying relevant literature and research sources, filling in the issues of China-born immigrants in the U.S. that the previous literature hasn’t mentioned, as well as...

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Ethnicity, Immigration, and Wealth Fluctuations in the United States

Gorbachev, Olga - 2017

Wealth in the United States rose and fell precipitously during the first decade of this century for all major ethnic groups, but the fluctuations in Hispanic wealth were especially extreme. We show that household characteristics and location can account for the Hispanic experience during the...

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Education and Self-Employment : South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market

Dutta, Nabamita - 2014

immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054578