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Title: The Not-So-Hot Melting Pot: The Persistence of OUtcomes for Descendants of the Age of Mass Migration

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: How many generations does it take for skill gaps across immigrant sources to converge? Using data that links immigrant grandfathers in 1880 to grandsons in 1940, we show that ethnic group averages converge at a slower rate than a standard multigenerational model predicts. Third-generation outcomes are correlated with the average skill level of the first generation, above and beyond the effect of the grandfather. Ethnic skill gaps converge more quickly for descendants of grandfathers from the same 1880 neighborhood, suggesting that the clustering of the first generation into enclaves partially drives persistence of ethnic skill gaps for multiple generations.

Url: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170382

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Authors: Ward, Zachary

Publisher: Australian National University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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