Income, Cohort Effects, and Occupational Mobility: A New Look at Immigration to the United States at the Turn of the 20th Century

Minns, Chris

doi:10.1006/exeh.2000.0746

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“…4 These data allow us to examine the size and evolution of immigrant earnings differentials. Previous research on assimilation among immigrants of different origins (Minns 2000;Abramitzky, Boustan, and Erikson 2012) is limited to the US and assessed via shifts in occupational profiles.…”

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Reverse assimilation? Immigrants in the Canadian labour market during the Great Depression

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Minns

Summerfield

2016

European Review of Economic History

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This paper uses Canadian Census data from 1911 to 1931 to trace the labour market assimilation of immigrants up to the onset of the Great Depression. We find that substantial earnings convergence between 1911 and 1921 was reversed between 1921 and 1931, with immigrants from Continental Europe experiencing a sharp decline in earnings relative to the native-born. The effect of Depression labour market conditions were particularly pronounced among older immigrants with long tenures in Canada.

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Reverse assimilation? Immigrants in the Canadian labour market during the Great Depression

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Summerfield

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European Review of Economic History

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“…But that process was also facilitated by the adaptation of these ethnic groups as communities and by a growing familiarity with, and acceptance of, them by native-born Americans. Econometric analysis (some of which uses the Immigration Commission's own data) shows that the new immigrants suffered a substantial initial earnings disadvantage but they assimilated fairly rapidly towards the earnings levels of the native-born (Hatton 2000, Minns 2000.…”

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Immigrants assimilate as communities, not just as individuals

Hatton

Leigh

2009

J Popul Econ

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“…Green and Green (2014) find that despite the high proportion of immigrants in the 1920s who began as farm workers, the occupational distribution of those immigrants corresponded very closely to that of the native population by 1931. On the relative earnings of immigrants to the USA in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, see Minns (2000). His results strengthen ''the 'optimistic' view of immigrant progress in America (p. 349)''.…”

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Transatlantic wage gaps and the migration decision: Europe–Canada in the 1920s

Armstrong

Lewis

2016

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As has been seen in other contexts, workers in similar occupations earned much higher wages in Canada than Europe during the 1920s. This observation and related aspects of immigration are addressed with a life-cycle model of the migration decision. The characteristics of immigrants from five European countries: Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden, are explored in a way that sheds light not just on those population flows but on the process of immigration generally. We draw on passenger manifests from immigrant ships for information on the individual migrants. Simulations, based partly on the these manifests, reveal that the costs of migration, borrowing constraints, concern for status, and country-specific taste preferences account for key immigrant characteristics, and help explain the large wage differentials that persisted despite Canada's relatively open immigration policy.

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Income, Cohort Effects, and Occupational Mobility: A New Look at Immigration to the United States at the Turn of the 20th Century

Cited by 62 publications

References 20 publications

Reverse assimilation? Immigrants in the Canadian labour market during the Great Depression

Reverse assimilation? Immigrants in the Canadian labour market during the Great Depression

Immigrants assimilate as communities, not just as individuals

Transatlantic wage gaps and the migration decision: Europe–Canada in the 1920s

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