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Title: Immigrant selection and assimilation during the age of mass migration

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: The Age of Mass Migration from Europe to the New World (1850–1913) was one of the largest such episodes in human history. By 1910, 22 percent of the U.S. labor force was foreign born, compared to “only” 17 percent today. In a joint research program with Ran Abramitzky and Katherine Eriksson, I ask three related questions about this large and formative migrant flow: Were migrants who settled in the United States in the late nineteenth century positively or negatively selected from the European population? What was the economic return to this migration? And, how did these new migrants fare in the U.S. labor market, both upon first arrival and after spending some time in the country? A better understanding of the . . .

Url: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/103235/1/745851851.pdf

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Authors: Boustan, Leah

Periodical (Full): NBER Reporter

Issue: 1

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Pages: 9-12

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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