Publications

50 publications found, searching for 'Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Structure '

• Working Paper No. 172
  October 01, 1996

  Selective Migration As a Basis for Upward Mobility?

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  The upward mobility of Jews who migrated to the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century has been explained as a function of premigrational cultural characteristics (such as…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 7
  June 07, 1993

  Immigration Policy: A Tool of Labor Economics?

  Vernon M. Briggs
  Abstract

  Vernon M. Briggs argues that, while mass immigration in the past was consistent with then-existing labor market needs, today it is incompatible with the nation’s economic development trends and labor…more

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