Doctoral Dissertation Research: Integration Policies and Immigrants' Economic Incorporation

以往关于移民经济同化的研究主要集中在个人属性的影响或经济和社会结构对移民结果的影响。在目前的研究中，我结合联合收割机的见解，从两个学派的思想在分析收入同化。具体来说，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背景下测试预测。这将使我能够使用一个单一的模型来解决经济结果的个人和背景的决定因素，并检查是否集中在这两个维度之一的理论提供竞争或互补的解释同化的动态。 此外，我将改进早期的工作，同时分析的影响，族群特征的群体手段的初始收入和群体手段的收入增长，同时控制个人的人力资本和人口属性。 这将使我能够检查是否相同的因素塑造初始收入和收入增长的种族群体，并确定哪些群体有不利的同化前景。最后，利用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。这将检验群体一级对收入同化的影响是否取决于东道国的体制特点。注重移民的群体特征和东道国有利于同化的特性，有助于制定移民和融合政策，帮助移民融入接受国经济。通过协助移民的同化过程，这种研究可以帮助改善移民的福祉，增加移民对接收社区的好处。

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.