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On Immigrant Assimilation

By immigrationprof

This is an interesting paper that is very relevant to the claim a la Peter Brimelow and Samuel Huntington that “today’s [Mexican] immigrants fail to assimilate”:

“Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height” Contact: JONI HERSCH Vanderbilt University Email: joni.hersch@vanderbilt.edu  Full Text: http://ssrn.com/abstract=927038

ABSTRACT: Whether and how quickly immigrants assimilate into the U.S. labor market is an issue of great policy importance and controversy. Using newly-available data from the New Immigrant Survey 2003, this paper shows that new lawful immigrants to the U.S. who have lighter skin color and are taller have higher earnings, controlling for extensive labor market and immigration status information, as well as for education, English language proficiency, ethnicity, race, and country of birth. The findings of this paper are consistent with discrimination against new immigrants on the basis of skin color.

KJ