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 a tradition of learning) or premigrational structural attributes (skills in certain industries and occupations that could be applied in the new country). In this working […]

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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 force requirements. He concludes that it is important to shift the emphasis of the legal immigration admission system away from the politically popular family reunification […]

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