Doctoral Dissertation Research: Integration Policies and Immigrants' Economic Incorporation

以往关于移民经济同化的研究或侧重于个体属性的影响，或侧重于经济和社会结构对移民结果的影响。在目前的研究中，我结合了两个学派的见解来分析收入同化。具体地说，我将使用多层次建模技术从资本模型的形式和接受方法的上下文中检验预测。这将使我能够使用单一模型解决经济结果的个人和背景决定因素，并检验专注于这两个维度中的一个的理论是否对同化动态提供了相互竞争或互补的解释。此外，在控制个人人力资本和人口属性的情况下，通过同时分析族群特征对群体初始收入均值和群体收入增长均值的影响，我将在前面工作的基础上进行改进。这将使我能够检查是否相同的因素影响了不同种族群体的初始收入和收入增长，并确定哪些群体具有不利的同化前景。最后，使用2000年美国人口普查和2001年加拿大人口普查的数据，我将比较两个国家的移民同化模式，这两个国家的劳动力市场制度和经济政策相似，但融合政策明显不同。这将检验集团水平对收益同化的影响是否依赖于东道国的制度特征。将重点放在移民群体特征和有助于同化的东道国属性上，有助于制定移民和融合政策，帮助移民融入接受国经济。通过帮助移民同化的过程，这类研究可以帮助改善移民的福祉，增加移民对接受国社区的好处。

Prior research on immigrants' economic assimilation focused either on the effects of individual attributes or on the effects of the economic and social structure on immigrants' outcomes. In the current research I combine insights from both schools of thought in analyzing earnings assimilation. Specifically, I will test predictions from the forms of capital model and the context of reception approach using multilevel modeling techniques. This will allow me to address the individual and contextual determinants of economic outcomes using a single model and to examine whether theories focusing on one of these two dimensions offer competing or complementary explanations of the dynamics of assimilation. In addition, I will improve on earlier work by simultaneously analyzing the effects of ethnic group characteristics on group means of initial earnings and group means of earnings growth while controlling for individual human capital and demographic attributes. This will enable me to examine whether the same factors shape initial earnings and earnings growth across ethnic groups and to identify which groups have unfavorable assimilation prospects. Finally, using data from the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2001 Census of Canada, I will compare immigrant assimilation patterns in two countries with similar labor market institutions and economic polices but with markedly different integration policies. This will test whether group-level effects on earnings assimilation are dependent on host country institutional characteristics.Broader impact. The focus on immigrants' group characteristics and host country attributes that facilitate assimilation can help in shaping immigration and integration policies that assist in the incorporation of immigrants into receiving economies. By assisting the process of immigrants' assimilation, such research can help improve the well-being of immigrants and increase the benefits of immigration to receiving communities.