The Immigrant Assimilation Puzzle in Late Nineteenth-Centuty America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10097040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T J Hatton (0000-0001-5535-8710, University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34-62 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700017915 |
| OpenAlex | W2126227424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 14 |
Recent studies suggest that the earnings of pre-1890 immigrants grew slowly compared with those of natives and imply that these immigrants did not assimilate well into the American labor market. Using data for Michigan and California this article estimates new specifications for immigrant and native-born earnings, and finds that immigrants who arrived as children had similar earnings profiles to the native-born. Immigrants who arrived as adults suffered an initial earnings disadvantage but their earnings grew faster than those of the native-born. These results are consistent with the traditional view that pre-1890 immigrants assimilated well
Archaeology · Demographic economics · Disadvantage · Earnings · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Labour economics · Native-Born · New immigrants · Political science · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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The linguistic wage gap in Quebec, 1901 to 1951
Industrious migrants
Dominion or Republic? Migrants to North America from the United Kingdom, 1870-1910
Work-family conflict in a comparative context
Was there a family gap in late nineteenth century manufacturing? Evidence from Sweden
Class Background, Reception Context, and Intergenerational Mobility
Estimating Historical Wage Profiles
Immigrants’ labour market experiences in early twentieth century Canada
Anti-Irish Job Discrimination circa 1880
A Nation of Immigrants
Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush
African-American Economic Mobility in the 1940s
Migration, marriage and social mobility
The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States
The Skill and Economic Performance of Mexican Immigrants from 1910 to 1990
The Slow Assimilation of British Immigrants in Canada
Globalisation versus de-coupling
Income, Cohort Effects, and Occupational Mobility
Selective Immigration and Ethnic Economic Achievement
Occupational Status of Immigrants and African Americans at the Beginning and End of the Great Migration
Segmented assimilation and mobility among men in the early 20th century
Understanding the Gender Gap Further
Age at Arrival and Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration
Paesaniversuspaisanos
How skilled were English agricultural labourers in the early nineteenth century?1
Freemasonry and business networking during the Victorian period
Economic Integration of Pre-WWI Immigrants from the British Isles in the Canadian Labour Market
Empirical Age-Earnings Profiles
The Economics of Immigration
Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality Revisited
Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
The Earnings of Skilled and Unskilled Immigrants at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Experience and the Male—Female Earnings Gap in the 1890s
Did American Manufacturers Discriminate Against Immigrants Before 1914
City Size and Ethnic Discrimination
Gender differences in learning and earning in nineteenth-century America
Ethnic discrimination in a 19th-century mining district
Jewish immigrant skill and occupational attainment at the turn of the century
Immigrants’ Relative Rate of Wage Growth in the Late 19th Century
| Unique citing works | 30 |
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| Citations per year | 1,15 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |