Age at Arrival and Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration

Rohan Alexander and Zachary Ward

No 3, CEH Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic History, Research School of Economics, Australian National University

Abstract: We estimate the effect of age at arrival for immigrant outcomes with a new dataset of arrivals linked to the 1940 United States Census. Using within-family variation, we find that arriving at an older age, or having more childhood exposure to the European environment, led to a more negative wage gap relative to the native born. Infant arrivals had a positive wage gap relative to natives, in contrast to a negative gap for teenage arrivals. Therefore, a key determinant of immigrant outcomes during the Age of Mass Migration was the country of residence during critical periods of childhood development.

Keywords: Age at arrival; Assimilation; Childhood environment. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J61 N31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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