Barry R Chiswick
Biographic Data
| ID | 82512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry R Chiswick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry R |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiswick |
| SIGNATURE | CHISWICK B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3416-2713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 111 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1672 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 109 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
An analysis of slaveholders according to the 1850 Census
Jewish Occupational Attainment in the Antebellum USA: Filling a Gap in the Literature
This article is concerned with analyzing the occupational attainment of American Jewish men compared to other free men in the mid-19th century to help fill a gap in the literature on Jewish achievement. It does this by using the full count (100 percent) microdata file from the 1850 Census of Population, the first census to ask about the occupation of free men. Independent lists of surnames are used to identify men with a higher probability of bei…
An analysis of the occupations of free women in the antebellum USA
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers
Jews at Work: Their Economic Progress in the American Labor Market
Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human-Capital Externalities
The socioeconomic performance of today's workers depends not only on parental skills, but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the generation of their parents (or ethnic capital). This chapter investigates the link between the ethnic externality and ethnic neighborhoods. The evidence indicates that residential segregation and the external effect of ethnicity are linked, partly because ethnic capital summarizes the socioeconomic backg…
Foundations of Migration Economics
Migration these days is as topical as ever. A substantial and even increasing percentage of the world population live outside their country of birth. Climate change, conflicts, but also better education in developing countries will lead to more international migration, and will present new challenges to the societies in the sending and receiving countries. This volume offers insights into core topics of migration economics that have been pioneere…
Language Acquisition, Employment Status, and the Earnings of Jewish and Non‐Jewish Immigrants in Israel
This article analyses the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labour market earnings of immigrants in Israel. It uses the 2010/11 Immigrant Absorption Survey conducted by the Israeli CBS. In addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human capital variables, the analysis includes unique features: the study of long‐duration immigrants, analyses of males’ and females’ primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized i…
Intermarriage
This entry analyzes the determinants of intermarriage. It first defines the boundary of what is considered to be one's “group.” It then uses the prism of opportunities and incentives for ingroup marriage to analyze the determinants of intermarriage.
Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States: The Adjustment of their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey
Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class
Book Review| July 01 2012 Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class. By Eli Lederhendler. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxiii + 224 pp. Graphs, photos, tables, notes, index, and bibliography. $85 (cloth). Barry R. Chiswick Barry R. Chiswick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethni…
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and bridging (i.e., inter-ethnic) ties on economic outcomes. Results show that general social contacts have a positive effect on the occupational status and, in particular, annual income of immigrants. We also find t…
Ethnic intermarriage among immigrants: Human capital and assortative mating
High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market
The economics literature on the international migration of skilled workers is reviewed and recent policy trends are evaluated. The theoretical implications of skilled migration are discussed within the context of the benefits to the skilled immigrant, the sending country, and the receiving country. The types of immigrant selection mechanisms are also detailed, with emphasis on their advantages and disadvantages. The recent immigration policies of…
The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case
The authors address whether "negative" assimilation among immigrants living in the United States occurs if skills are highly transferable internationally. They outline the conditions for negative assimilation in the context of the traditional immigration assimilation model, in which negative assimilation arises not from a deterioration of skills but from a decline in the wages afforded by skills coincident with the duration of residence. The auth…
The Effects of Educational-Occupational Mismatch on Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation framework and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling. This decomposition links over-education to the less-than-perfect international transferability of immigrants’ human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons are offered with…
Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance. By Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson
The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish PhD
Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market
Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health
This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self‐reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on the type of visa used to gain admission. The empirical analysis uses the three waves of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (panel I). Immigrant health is greater for immigrants who are younger, more educated, male, more proficient in English, and living outside an immigrant ethnic enclave. Immigrant health is poor…
Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?
The international transferability of immigrants’ human capital
Commentary on Daniel Tichenor, “Strange Bedfellows: The Politics and Pathologies of Immigration Reform”
Research Article| May 01 2008 Commentary on Daniel Tichenor, “Strange Bedfellows: The Politics and Pathologies of Immigration Reform” Barry R. Chiswick Barry R. Chiswick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (2): 61–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2007-078 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barry R. Chiswick; Commentary on Daniel Tichenor, “Strange Bedfellows: The Poli…
A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning1
A critical period for language learning is often defined as a sharp decline in learning outcomes with age. This study examines the relevance of the critical period for English-speaking proficiency among immigrants in the USA. It uses microdata from the 2000 US Census, a model of language acquisition and a flexible specification of an estimating equation based on 64 age-at-migration dichotomous variables. Self-reported English-speaking proficiency…
How Immigrants Fare across the Earnings Distribution in Australia and the United States
This paper investigates determinants of the earnings distribution for native-born workers and immigrant workers in two countries. The authors, using data from the 2000 U.S. Census and 2001 Australian Census, employ a methodology (quantile regression) that facilitates measurement of the native-born/immigrant earnings differential and the partial effect of explanatory variables such as schooling and experience at each decile of the earnings distrib…
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
The earnings of foreign-born adult white men, as reported in the 1970 Census of Population, are analyzed through comparisons with the native born and among the foreign born by country of origin, years in the United States, and citizenship. Differences in the effects of schooling and postschool training are explored. Although immigrants initially earn less than the native born, their earnings rise more rapidly with U.S. labor market experience, an…
Immigrant earnings: Language skills, linguistic concentrations and the business cycle
A model of destination-language acquisition: Application to male immigrants in Canada
We develop a model using human capital theory and an immigrant adjustment process to generate hypotheses on the acquisition of destination-language skills among immigrants. The model is tested for adult male immigrants in the 1991 Census of Canada. Use of English or French is greater, the younger the age at migration, the longer the duration of residence, the higher the educational attainment, the farther the country of origin from Canada, and th…
A Longitudinal Analysts of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis
This article develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and tests the hypotheses using data on males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, Panel I. The theoretical model generates hypotheses regarding a U-shaped pattern of occupational mobility from the “last job” in the origin, to the “first job” in the destination, to subsequent jobs in the destination, and regarding the depth of the “U.” The survey includes …
Are there gender and country of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations
Ethnic networks and language proficiency among immigrants
The Labor Market Status of Immigrants: Effects of the Unemployment Rate at Arrival and Duration of Residence
Combining Current Population Survey samples from November 1979, April 1983, June 1986, and June 1988, all of which included data on country of birth and year of immigration, the authors examine patterns of immigrant employment and unemployment. Human capital was less strongly linked to employment status for immigrant men than for native-born white men, probably because human capital acquired outside the United States was only imperfectly transfer…
Patterns of Immigrant Occupational Attainment in a Longitudinal Survey
This paper uses data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to examine the empirical relevance of a model of immigrant occupational mobility. Consistent with the model, there is a U‐shaped pattern of occupational change from the pre‐immigration occupation through to the occupation held after three‐and‐a‐half years in Australia. The U is shallower for immigrants from countries similar to Australia than it is for immigrants from co…
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and bridging (i.e., inter-ethnic) ties on economic outcomes. Results show that general social contacts have a positive effect on the occupational status and, in particular, annual income of immigrants. We also find t…
Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages
This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the ‘distance’ between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have learning other languages. The linguistic distance measure is then used in an analysis of the determinants of English language proficiency among adult immigrants in the USA and Canada. It is shown that, when other determinants of English language profici…
Hebrew language usage: Determinants and effects on earnings among immigrants in Israel
Language skills and earnings among legalized aliens
The Effect of Linguistic Distance and Country of Origin on Immigrant Language Skills: Application to Israel
This article is concerned with identifying, for the first time, the separate effects of linguistic distance (language of origin) and country of origin on the destination language proficiency of immigrants. The determinants of Hebrew language proficiency (fluency and literacy) among immigrants in Israel are studied using the 1972 Census of Israel and the Immigration Absorption (panel) Surveys conducted in the 1970s. Country of origin and language …
Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market
Jewish immigrant skill and occupational attainment at the turn of the century
The Earnings of White and Coloured Male Immigrants in Britain
According to the 1971 Census of Great Britain, 1.2 million males in Britain (4*5 per cent of all males) were born outside the British Isles.' About half of these immigrants were born in the New Commonwealth countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, three-tenths were born in Europe (including the USSR), and another one-tenth are from the Old Commonwealth countries and the United States. As time passes, the children of the coloured immigrants in…
Time-Series Changes in Personal Income Inequality in the United States from 1939, with Projections to 1985
The Effects of Educational-Occupational Mismatch on Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation framework and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling. This decomposition links over-education to the less-than-perfect international transferability of immigrants’ human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons are offered with…
The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination, and Religiosity
This article analyzes the determinants of the earnings of American Jewish men using the 2000/2001 National Jewish Population Survey. Nonresponse to the question on earnings is analyzed. Earnings are related to conventional human capital variables, as well as Jewish-specific variables. Except for the size of place and region variables, the standard human capital variables have similar effects for Jewish men and the general male population. Jewish …
Language choice among immigrants in a multi-lingual destination
Illegal Aliens in the United States Labor Market: Analysis of Occupational Attainment and Earnings
The methodology developed previously for analyzing the labor market adjustment of legal immigrants is shown to be equally fruitful for analyzing illegal aliens. It is modified to incorporate the effects of illegal status on migration decisions and skill differentials. The data are the North-Houstoun illegal alien sample and the 1970 Census. Using multiple regression analysis, the earnings of illegal aliens rise with schooling and labor market exp…
Immigrants’ Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
This article is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) among immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language proficiency based on economic incentives, exposure to the destination language, and efficiency in second language acquisition. A unique data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about six…
Family matters: The role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition
Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
This article is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are more likely to live in the central parts of Metropolitan Areas in “gateway (major international airport) cities” in six states (California, New York, Texa…
Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
This article is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination-language proficiency among immigrants. Skills-tested and economic immigrants have the greatest proficiency shortly after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the…
Minimum Schooling Legislation and the Cross-Sectional Distribution of Income
Journal Article Minimum Schooling Legislation and the Cross-Sectional Distribution of Income Get access Barry R. Chiswick Barry R. Chiswick University of California, Los Angeles. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 79, Issue 315, 1 September 1969, Pages 495–507, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230378 Published: 01 September 1969
Time-Series Changes in Personal Income Inequality in the United States from 1939, with Projections to 1985
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: A Test of Alternative Hypotheses
This paper tests for racial discrimination by white and nonwhite male workers using the states as the unit of observation. It is shown theoretically that white (nonwhite) employee discrimination creates a component of white (nonwhite) earnings inequality within skill levels which is higher, the higher the fraction of nonwhites in the labor force. The "job-rationing" hypothesis predicts a negative (positive) partial effect of percentage nonwhite o…
The Rising Cost of Hospital Care
Associate professor of Economics, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York; Research Associate,National Bureau of Economic Research
Time-Series Changes in Personal Income Inequality in the United States from 1939 with Projections to 1985: Reply
Regional variations in hospital occupancy rates
The Effect of Unemployment Compensation on a Seasonal Industry: Agriculture
Income Distribution: Analysis and Policies . Jan Tinbergen
Controls and Inflation: The Economic Stabilization Program in Retrospect
This book examines the phases of the Economic Stabilization Program from 1971 to 1974, analyzing the controls as an income policy tool that was part of the US response to inflation
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
The earnings of foreign-born adult white men, as reported in the 1970 Census of Population, are analyzed through comparisons with the native born and among the foreign born by country of origin, years in the United States, and citizenship. Differences in the effects of schooling and postschool training are explored. Although immigrants initially earn less than the native born, their earnings rise more rapidly with U.S. labor market experience, an…
Toward an Economic Theory of Income Distribution
Human Resources and Income Distribution: Issues and Policies
Journal Article Human Resources and Income Distribution: Issues and Policies Get access Human Resources and Income Distribution: Issues and Policies. Edited by BARRY R. CHISWICK and JUNE A. O'NEILL. (New York: W.W.Norton, 1977. Pp. xvi + 231. $4.95.) Peter J. Taylor Peter J. Taylor University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 354, 1 June 1979, Pages 468–469…
The Distribution of Economic Well-Being
The Earnings of White and Coloured Male Immigrants in Britain
According to the 1971 Census of Great Britain, 1.2 million males in Britain (4*5 per cent of all males) were born outside the British Isles.' About half of these immigrants were born in the New Commonwealth countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, three-tenths were born in Europe (including the USSR), and another one-tenth are from the Old Commonwealth countries and the United States. As time passes, the children of the coloured immigrants in…
Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market
The general perception of an increased presence of foreign-born workers in the U.S. labor market is well grounded in changes in the U.S. immigration experience. Relative to the population, immigration has increased fivefold since the trough of the 1930s, and in recent years the annual legal inflow has been about 2.2 immigrants per year per thousand population. Even more dramatic is the change in the countries of origin. In the past 15 years, Euro…
The Economics of Labor Migration: A Behavioral Analysis
An alternative approach to immigration policy: Rationing by skill
The Economics of the Diaspora Revisited
Illegal Aliens in the United States Labor Market: Analysis of Occupational Attainment and Earnings
The methodology developed previously for analyzing the labor market adjustment of legal immigrants is shown to be equally fruitful for analyzing illegal aliens. It is modified to incorporate the effects of illegal status on migration decisions and skill differentials. The data are the North-Houstoun illegal alien sample and the 1970 Census. Using multiple regression analysis, the earnings of illegal aliens rise with schooling and labor market exp…
Illegal Aliens in the United States Labor Market: Analysis of Occupational Attainment and Earnings
Barry R. Chiswick, Illegal Aliens in the United States Labor Market: Analysis of Occupational Attainment and Earnings, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, Special Issue: Irregular Migration: An International Perspective (Autumn, 1984), pp. 714-732
The Dilemma of American Immigration: Beyond the Golden Door
The Dilemma of American Immigration: Beyond the Golden Door
The Gateway: U.S. Immigration Issues and Policies
The Dilemma of American Immigration: Beyond the Golden Door
Are Immigrants and Natives Perfect Substitutes in Production
It is hypothesized that immigrant and native labor are less than perfect substitutes in production. Natives are relatively more intensive in country-specific knowledge and skills. Immigrants are relatively more intensive in the characteristics that influence self-selection for migration, including innate ability, ambition, entrepreneurship, and aggressiveness. The hypothesis is tested by comparing, for five major immigrant receiving countries, th…
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