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achieved by the Mexican-origin population in the United States. First, using Census data for U.S.-born youth ages 16-17 who … have at least one Mexican parent, we estimate how the Mexican identification, high school dropout rates, and English … extent and selectivity of ethnic attrition among second-generation Mexican-American adults and among U.S.-born Mexican …
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achieved by the Mexican-origin population in the United States. First, using Census data for U.S.-born youth ages 16-17 who … have at least one Mexican parent, we estimate how the Mexican identification, high school dropout rates, and English … extent and selectivity of ethnic attrition among second-generation Mexican-American adults and among U.S.-born Mexican …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325115
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generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican … increased returns to human capital for Mexican-origin workers who were born and educated in the United States. Even if we … fluency that occur between the second and third generations do not appear to raise the earnings of Mexican Americans any …
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generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican … increased returns to human capital for Mexican-origin workers who were born and educated in the United States. Even if we … fluency that occur between the second and third generations do not appear to raise the earnings of Mexican Americans any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403963
Is having one native-born parent an advantage for the child of an immigrant? Much of the classical literature on immigrant assimilation would suggest that children with one native-born and one foreign-born parent (generation 2.5) should fare better than those whose parents are both foreign-born...
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The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the...
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The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325370
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522524
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541750