"Investments in US-specific skills may have a limited effect on earnings growth if immigrants face discrimination in the labor market. However, in this case, immigrants may be able to mitigate discrimination by changing their self-presentation to de-emphasize their foreign roots. Immigrants change their own names and choose less foreign names for their children as they spend more time in the US (Carneiro, Lee and Reis, 2015; Abramitzky, Boustan and Eriksson, 2016). Biavaschi, Giulietti and Siddique (2013) find that immigrants who changed their names between filing their first and second papers for naturalization in the 1920s experienced more occupational upgrading, perhaps because Americanized names shielded them from discrimination. Likewise, children of immigrants who received less foreign-sounding names enjoyed better labor market outcomes, even after controlling for other aspects of family background (Abramitzky, Boustan and Eriksson, 2016; Goldstein and Stecklov, 2015)."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Immigration to the United States
279 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Immigration to the United States →
Related Quotes
"As part of its commitment to human rights, the United States offers asylum to foreign nation-als who flee to its shor…"
"The narrative of immigration as regeneration imagined the republican system itself, as well the economic arrangements…"
"Immigrants were legally reconstructed as foreigners only in the final decades of the nineteenth century, as Europeans…"
"Human judgment can never be eliminated from any system of justice. But we believe that the outcome of a refugee’s que…"
"If the adoption of the Alien Friends Act represented a dramatic short-term political triumph for the Federalist Party…"
"The history of immigration law and politics in the nineteenth century is, in an important respect, a history of repea…"
"Although the fact that the Constitution vests the authority to enact naturalization laws in Congress suggests that so…"
"Collectively, asylum officers, immigration judges, members of the Board of Immigration Appeals, and judges of U.S. co…"
"In crafting a naturalization law, prudence thus counseled that immigrants undergo a period of probation before being …"
"Over the first half of the nineteenth century, even as Americans developed progressively sharper critiques of immigra…"