Successful black immigrants narrow black–white achievement gaps

Alison Rauh

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 144, issue C, 53-58

Abstract: Foreign-born blacks have become a large part of the American black population. Compared to native-born blacks, they are more likely to be high-earning, employed, educated, and not institutionalized. The systematic outcome differences have masked the widening of black–white achievement gaps.

Keywords: Economics of races and immigrants; Demographic trends; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.04.019

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