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Title: Essays on Black Immigrants in the US
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2014
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Abstract: The number of black immigrants living the US has increased 13-fold from 1970 to 2010, increasing their share of the black population from 1% to 10%. Black immigrants' labor market outcomes surpass those of native blacks. The first chapter determines in how far the relative success of black immigrants is passed on to the second generation. If second generation males work, they earn a stunning 29% more than the first generation. But 28% of the black second generation do not work and do not attend school. The joblessness and year-round idleness experienced by many young black men in the US is spilling over to second generation blacks, and blacks who immigrate young. The upward convergence in idleness between black immigrants and black natives should not be thought of as a fixed parameter. Education is a dividing mark: For immigrants without a college degree the convergence is strong, for college-educated immigrants it is weak. Location-specific characteristics play an important role: Counties with high levels of racial segregation experience quicker convergence, highly educated counties experience slower convergence. Both discrimination and assimilation play an important role for the convergence between black immigrants and black natives.Controlling for one mechanism cuts the effect of the other in half or more as assimilation and discrimination coexist in many counties. Besides a massive increase in black immigration, the 1980-2010 period also experienced a substantial widening of the black-white wage and employment gap. The second chapter determines in how far increased selective immigration masks an even greater deterioration in the economic condition of native blacks. In 2011, excluding black immigrants increases the white-black wage gap by 4% for men and 9% for women. It increases the employment gap by 13% and 19% for men and women respectively.
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Authors: Rauh, Alis J.
Institution: Univeristy of Chicago
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Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Economics
Publisher Location: Chicago, IL
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS
Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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