Why are some immigrant groups more successful than others?

Autor/in	Lazear, Edward P.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Why are some immigrant groups more successful than others? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Warum sind manche Einwanderungsgruppen erfolgreicher als andere?
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2017), 37 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 23548
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
DOI	10.3386/w23548
Schlagwörter	Bildungsabschluss; Arbeitserlaubnis; Einkommenshöhe; Herkunftsland; USA
Abstract	"Success, measured by earnings or education, of immigrants in the US varies dramatically by country of origin. For example, average educational attainment among immigrants ranges from 9 to 16 years, depending on source country. Perhaps surprisingly, immigrants from Algeria have higher educational attainment than those from Israel or Japan. Also true is that there is a strong inverse relation of attainment to number of immigrants from that country. These patterns result because in the US, immigrant slots are rationed. Selection from the top of the source country's ability distribution is assumed and modelled. The main implications are that average immigrant attainment is inversely related to the number admitted from a source country and positively related to the population of that source country. The results are unequivocally supported by results from the American Community Survey. Additionally, a structural model that is more explicit in the assumptions and predictions fits the data well." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/4