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Title: Essays on the Economic Assimilation of Recent Immigrants
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in the population of immigrants in the US. The new immigrants (immigrants of late the 20 th and 21st century) are different from the immigrants of the early and mid-twentieth century who primarily originated from European countries and were similar in race and culture to their native counterparts. The new immigrants primarily originate from developing countries. A large proportion of modern immigrants originate from developing countries in Central and South America, who are substantially different in terms of culture and human capital from the majority of the native population of the US. The scale and type of modern immigration has resulted in an intense debate about the economics of immigration. Within this debate, labor market outcomes of recent immigrants have attracted a great deal of interest. In particular, there has been a substantial interest in their relative earnings and human capital. This dissertation contributes to the debate and literature on the economics of immigration by presenting new evidence on the sources of the earnings disadvantage of immigrants, the effect of location choice on the labor market outcomes of immigrants and native Hispanics, and the relative collegiate experiences and outcomes of foreign students in the US. The first article studies the sources of the earnings disadvantage of 21st century immigrants relative to natives. It finds that time spent in the US, English language proficiency and educational attainment are the key determinants behind the lower relative earnings of immigrants and these sources get more pronounced in the post Great Recession era. The second article studies the effect of residency . . .
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Authors: Gill, Fahad
Institution: Middle Tennessee State University
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Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other
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