The More Things Change: Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s

David E. Card, John Enrico DiNardo and E. Estes

Working Papers from California Irvine - School of Social Sciences

Abstract: Rising immigrant inflow have substantially affected the size and composition of the US workforce. They are also exerting an even bigger intergenerational effect: at present one-in-ten native born children are in the "second generation" - born to immigrant parents. In this paper we present a comparative perspective on the economic performance of immigrants and their children, utlizing data from the 1940 and 1970 Censuses, and from recent (1994-96) Current Population Surveys.

Keywords: IMMIGRANTS; GENERATIONS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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