Immigrant Wealth Accumulation

描述（由申请人提供）：许多关于移民经济福利的研究表明，移民不成比例地集中在美国社会的底层。移民经济福利中经常被忽视的一个方面是财富或净资产。我们建议使用2001年和2004年收入和项目参与调查（SIPP）和第一轮新移民调查（NIS）的数据。我们运用分段同化理论来探讨移民的融合过程，并强调美国的种族/民族现实如何为不同种族/民族背景的移民提供机会和限制。我们的重点是种族/民族财富不平等，同时考虑到移民前特征和初始法律地位的种族/民族差异。我们的第一个任务是使用SIPP数据来比较移民的财富积累与美国出生的非西班牙裔白人和他们在美国出生的同种族同龄人的财富积累。然后，我们将分析范围缩小到2003年获得合法永久居留权的NIS移民。我们的第二个任务是探索移民的种族/民族如何与移民前特征、初始合法地位、在美国停留的时间长短和其他美国经历变量的财富积累可能性相关联。我们使用多项逻辑回归来分析移民拥有负、零或正财富的可能性。我们的第三个任务是应用分位数回归来模拟不同类型的财富积累，包括金融财富、非金融财富、美国或外国财富。我们的最后一项任务是探索移民在财富类型上的投资——美国与外国、金融与非金融——与移民的种族/民族和其他特征之间的关系。这项研究将进一步加深我们对美国长期存在的种族/民族不平等如何影响不同移民群体的融合模式的理解。按财富类型对移民投资的考察也将揭示融合模式中的种族/民族差异。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Much of the research on immigrants' economic well-being demonstrates a disproportionate concentration of immigrants near the bottom of American society. An often neglected aspect within immigrant economic well- being is wealth or net worth. We propose to use data from the 2001 and 2004 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the first round of the New Immigrant Survey (NIS). We apply segmented assimilation theory to explore immigrants' integration processes and highlight how racial/ethnic realities in America provide both opportunities and constraints for immigrants of different racial/ethnic backgrounds. Our emphasis is on racial/ethnic wealth inequalities while taking into account racial/ethnic differences in pre-immigration characteristics and initial legal status. Our first task is to use SIPP data to compare immigrants' wealth accumulation with that of U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites and their U.S.-born co- ethnic peers. Then we narrow our focus to analyze the NIS immigrants admitted to legal permanent residence in 2003. Our second task explores how immigrants' race/ethnicity is associated with the likelihood of wealth accumulation net of pre-immigration characteristics, initial legal status, length of U.S. stay, and other American experience variables. We use multinomial logistic regressions to analyze the likelihood of immigrants with negative, zero, or positive wealth. Our third task is to apply quantile regressions to model different types of wealth accumulation including financial, non-financial wealth, and U.S. or foreign wealth. Our final task is to explore how immigrants' investment in wealth type - U.S. versus foreign and financial versus non-financial - is associated with immigrants' race/ethnicity and other characteristics. This study will further our understanding of how long-lasting racial/ethnic inequalities in America influence integration patterns of diverse immigrant groups. An examination of immigrants' investment by type of wealth will also shed light on racial/ethnic differences in integration patterns. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Much of the research on immigrants' economic well-being demonstrates a disproportionate concentration of immigrants near the bottom of American society. An often neglected aspect within immigrant economic well- being is wealth or net worth. We use data from the 2001 and 2004 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the first round of the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) to compare immigrants' wealth accumulation with that of U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites and their U.S.-born co-ethnic peers and then examine the association between immigrants' race/ethnicity and wealth accumulation net of pre-immigration characteristics, initial legal status, and other American experiences. The insight we gain from this study will help further understand immigrants' incorporation into American society.