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Title: Ethnic Enclaves and Immigrant Outcomes: Norwegian Immigrants during the Age of Mass Migration

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2018

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DOI: 10.3386/w24763

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Abstract: This paper examines the effect of ethnic enclaves on economic outcomes of Norwegian immigrants in 1910 and 1920, the later part of the Age of Mass Migration. Using different identification strategies, including county fixed effects and an instrumental variables strategy based on chain migration, I consistently find that Norwegians living in larger enclaves in the United States had lower occupational earnings, were more likely to be in farming occupations, and were less likely to be in white-collar occupations. Results are robust to matching method and choice of occupational score. This earnings disadvantage is partly passed on to the second generation.

Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24763.pdf

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Authors: Eriksson, Katherine

Series Title: NBER Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 24763

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research

Pages: 34

Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS USA - Ancestry Full Count Data

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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