{"id":45704,"date":"2016-02-17T20:18:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45704"},"modified":"2016-02-17T20:18:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T20:18:38","slug":"the-complexity-of-immigrant-generations-implications-for-assessing-the-socioeconomic-integration-of-hispanics-and-asians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45704","title":{"rendered":"The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w21982\" target=\"_blank\">The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w21982\" target=\"_blank\">Working Paper No. 21982<\/a><br \/>\nFebruary 2016<br \/>\n58 pages<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3386\/w21982\" target=\"_blank\">10.3386\/w21982<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/econ.ucdenver.edu\/bduncan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Duncan<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Economics<br \/>\n<em>University of Colorado<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/economics\/faculty\/profile.php?id=trejosj\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen J. Trejo<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Economics<br \/>\n<em>University of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because of data limitations, virtually all studies of the later-generation descendants of immigrants rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification rather than arguably more objective measures based on the countries of birth of the respondent and his ancestors. In this context, biases can arise from \u201cethnic attrition\u201d (e.g., U.S.-born individuals who do not self-identify as Hispanic despite having ancestors who were immigrants from a Spanish-speaking country). Analyzing 2003-2013 data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/programs-surveys\/cps.html\" target=\"_blank\">Current Population Survey<\/a> (CPS), this study shows that such ethnic attrition is sizeable and selective for the second- and third-generation populations of key Hispanic and Asian national origin groups. In addition, the results indicate that ethnic attrition generates measurement biases that vary across groups in direction as well as magnitude, and that correcting for these biases is likely to raise the socioeconomic standing of the U.S.-born descendants of most Hispanic immigrants relative to their Asian counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w21982.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts Working Paper No. 21982 February 2016 58 pages DOI: 10.3386\/w21982 Brian Duncan, Professor of Economics University of Colorado Stephen J. Trejo, Professor of Economics University of Texas, Austin Because of data limitations, virtually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,33,14646,8,14,20],"tags":[14639,7630,19116,9222,9223],"class_list":["post-45704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-usa","tag-brian-duncan","tag-national-bureau-of-economic-research","tag-nber","tag-stephen-j-trejo","tag-stephen-trejo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45705,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45704\/revisions\/45705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}