The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996...

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two groups decreased in the 1980’s. Given the high selfemployment rates of this group of workers, about 20 pe...

Canada is home to a significant number of immigrants and refugees, who represent 21% of the population of the country and 24% of the population of the Hamilton–Wentworth region of Ontario. The North Hamilton Community Health Centre (NHCHC) has been providing primary health care to this population through its Immigrant/Refugee Health Program (IRHP) since 1989. The program responds to local needs...

Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the homeand host country may also be related to future return plans. Thus, comparing savings and assets between ...

This paper studies the effects of the minimum wage on immigration. I develop an analytical framework in which immigration is a function of the expected wage, which is defined as the product of immigrants’ wage and employment probability in the region of destination. In the empirical analysis I exploit the state variation in expected wages stemming from the changes in the US federal minimum wage...

OBJECTIVES Russia has a high level of per capita alcohol consumption, while the level in Israel is low. Since 1989, over 820,000 Russian Jews immigrated to Israel. In the 1970's and early 1980's, a smaller wave of immigration from Russia to Israel occurred (approximately 170,000). The drinking of earlier immigrants was compared to recent immigrants and other Israelis. METHODS Data came from a...

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants from 70 countries. The degree of persistence as estimated in regress...

Cross-Nativity Marriages and Human Capital Levels of Children A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant’s marriage to a native, a measure of social integration,...

The present study examined the effects of cognitive impairment and functional limitation on depressive symptoms among older Korean American immigrants. The sample was drawn from a cross-sectional survey of 210 older Korean immigrants (aged 65 years or older) in Los Angeles County. Based on robust hierarchical regression, the study found that cognitive ability and functional status were signific...

Building on the economic research that demonstrates a positive relationship between height and worker ability, this paper compares the wage returns to height for immigrants and natives to explore possible explanations for the positive wage-height gradient. Using multiple data sets, the paper presents a robust empirical finding that the wage gains associated with height are almost twice as large...