Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: An Economic History of Hispanic Migration and Assimilation

经济学博士论文研究：西班牙裔移民与同化的经济史

• 批准号: 1824349
• 负责人: Carol Shiue
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1824349&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Economics; Economic

This research studies the migration of Puerto Ricans to the mainland United States in the decades following World War II. As a result of migration in this period, Puerto Ricans are currently the largest Hispanic population in cities of the Eastern seaboard and overall the second largest Hispanic group in the US. Although Puerto Ricans have been US citizens since 1917, they share many cultural and economic characteristics with the rest of Latin America. Thus, a better understanding of this historical period provides a window into migrant networks and future trends in migration from Latin America, the largest source of immigrants in the postwar era. The investigator uses data from employment applications submitted between 1948 and 1991 to a Puerto Rican public employment agency in the mainland US to better understand the skill level of those who chose to migrate, measure changes in the economic status of migrants, and analyze migrants' process of English acquisition and educational attainment after arrival. The dataset constructed will help to fill in gaps in historical knowledge, and the results of this research will have broad impacts on the study of migration.The research targets the exceptional data collections from the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States. With the newly created dataset, this research tracks migrant outcomes and uses information on the migrants' municipality of origin in Puerto Rico, date(s) of arrival in the US, and retrospective employment history for work both in Puerto Rico and the US. The analysis is divided into three sections. First, information on migrants' origin, arrival, and destination allows for assessment of the relationship between network size and migrant self-selection as networks evolve over time. Second, the short-run return to migration is measured by comparing the first wage of a migrant in the US to his/her last wage in Puerto Rico, while subsequent wages are used to assess convergence to natives and identify determinants of wage growth in the US. Third, the ostensible slow assimilation of Puerto Rican migrants is reexamined using new information on English acquisition and educational attainment after arrival in the US and by exploiting the longitudinal dimension of the data, which reduces the bias introduced by selective return migration.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项研究研究了第二次世界大战后几十年里波多黎各人移民到美国本土的情况。由于这一时期的移民，波多黎各人目前是东海岸城市中最大的拉美裔人口，总体上是美国第二大拉美裔群体。尽管波多黎各人自1917年以来一直是美国公民，但他们与拉丁美洲其他国家有许多共同的文化和经济特征。因此，更好地了解这一历史时期为了解来自拉丁美洲的移民网络和未来趋势提供了一个窗口，拉丁美洲是战后最大的移民来源地。研究人员利用1948年至1991年期间向波多黎各在美国大陆的一家公共就业机构提交的就业申请数据，以更好地了解选择移民的人的技能水平，衡量移民经济地位的变化，并分析移民抵达后英语习得和教育水平的过程。构建的数据集将有助于填补历史知识的空白，这项研究的结果将对移民研究产生广泛影响。这项研究的目标是从波多黎各政府驻美国办事处收集的特殊数据。通过新创建的数据集，这项研究跟踪了移民的结果，并使用了移民在波多黎各的原籍城市、抵达美国的日期(S)以及在波多黎各和美国的追溯就业历史等信息。分析分为三个部分。首先，关于移民的原籍、到达和目的地的信息可以评估网络规模和移民自我选择之间的关系，因为网络随着时间的推移而演变。其次，移民的短期回归是通过比较移民在美国的第一份工资与他/她在波多黎各的最后一份工资来衡量的，而随后的工资则被用来评估与原住民的趋同，并确定美国工资增长的决定因素。第三，使用有关抵达美国后英语习得和教育程度的新信息，并通过利用数据的纵向维度，减少选择性返回移民带来的偏见，重新审查了波多黎各移民表面上的缓慢同化。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。