A summary period measure of immigrant advancement in the U.S

John Pitkin and Dowell Myers
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John Pitkin: University of Southern California
Dowell Myers: University of Southern California

Demographic Research, 2011, vol. 24, issue 12, 257-292

Abstract: This paper proposes a method for summarizing the pace of advancement of the foreign-born population in a given period. The method standardizes for variations in the duration of residence or age composition of immigrant groups, attainments possessed by different groups when first observed after entry, and other temporal effects on measured advances, forming an index of Expected Lifetime Advance based on the pace of change in a period. The measure is applied to Mexican and Asian immigrants. Between the 1980s and the 1990s, the rates of advancement for Mexicans accelerated in six out of seven social, economic, and civic outcomes. Rates of advancement for Asians were similar in both decades.

Keywords: United States of America; integration; immigration; methods; assimilation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.12

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