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Title: Assets Portfolios of U.S. Legal Immigrants: Impact of Visa Categories and Previous Experience in the U.S.
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2010
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Abstract: Data from the New Immigrant Survey are used to study the impact of preimmigration status and visa categories on the assets portfolio choices of U.S. legal permanent residents. The present study contributes to the literature in several ways. First, it is one of a few studies able to explore wealth among immigrants in the United States. Second, we are able to study the effect of adjustment status and different immigration visa categories on immigrants’ assets holdings, which has been given little attention in immigration studies. Third, we are able to examine both the nature and magnitude of the impact differences in visa categories have on their assets portfolio, which helps to better understand their economic situation and provides information for further studies. The results demonstrate adjustee immigrants have significant more advantages in assets owning, compared with new arrivals. And among different immigration visa categories, employment principal group is more likely to report owning assets and owning higher-valued assets. Diversity immigrants, children and parents of U.S. citizens are in a . . .
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Authors: Zhao, Yu
Institution: Tufts University
Department: Economics
Advisor: Anna Hardman
Degree: M.S.
Publisher Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other
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