Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

For helpful comments and discussions, the authors thank the editors, Ilyana Kuziemko and Seema Jayachandran, as well as two anonymous referees, Ran Abramitzky, Jeremy Atack, Leah Boustan, Joseph Ferrie, Martin Fiszbein, Chris Minns, Joel Mokyr, Zachary Ward, and seminar and conference participants at the Economic History Association Annual Meetings, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Hoover Institution, the NBER-DAE Summer Institute, Northwestern University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Vanderbilt University. Work on this paper was completed while Ariell Zimran was a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the William C. Bark National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Visiting Scholar at the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; funding from both institutions is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Federal Reserve System, or the National Bureau of Economic Research. Collins is the Terence E. Adderley Jr. Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University and a Research Associate of the NBER. Zimran is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University and a Faculty Research Fellow of the NBER.

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