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dc.contributor.authorMurtin, Fabriceen
dc.contributor.authorViarengo, Martinaen
dc.date.accessioned2009-02-11-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:54:00Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:54:00Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-2009021035en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35618-
dc.description.abstractThis paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of migrants by country and the age pyramids of migrants by country. Then we use original data on educational attainment in the nineteenth century presented in Morrisson and Murtin (2008) in order to estimate the educational level of US immigrants by age and by country. As a result, our series are consistent with the first national estimates of average schooling in 1940. We show that mass migrations have had a significant but modest impact on the US average educational attainment. However, the educational gap between US natives and immigrants was large and increased with the second immigration wave, a phenomenon that most likely fostered the implementation of restrictive immigration rules in the 1920s.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3964en
dc.subject.jelI2en
dc.subject.jelJ24en
dc.subject.jelN70en
dc.subject.jelO1en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordEducationen
dc.subject.keywordmigrationsen
dc.subject.keywordeconomic historyen
dc.subject.keywordeconomic development researchen
dc.subject.stwBildungen
dc.subject.stwEinwanderungen
dc.subject.stwBildungsniveauen
dc.subject.stwMigrantenen
dc.subject.stwSoziale Integrationen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleAmerican education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn591455439en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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