In this study, we measure the contribution of immigrants and their descendents to the growth and industrial transformation of the American workforce in the age of mass immigration from 1880 to 1920. The size and selectivity of the immigrant community, as well as their disproportionate residence in...
[Excerpt] Ever since the latter half of the 19th Century when the United States began to use its lega l system as a means to regulate both the size and the composition of the flow of foreign-born persons into its population and labor force, policymakers have had to confront the issue of...
Hero and Robert R. Preuhs 摘要: The inclusion of racial/ethnic minorities is often considered an important factor leading to a relatively limited American welfare system. However, given the federal nature of welfare eligibility rules and the states' role in determining benefit levels, few studies ...
Immigration is core to the history of America - a "Nation of Immigrants" who are diverse by definition. Beginning with the first arrival of migrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe, and ending with a discussion of the United States at the turn of the 21st century, this book offers an un...
They arrived in the decades before the Civil War. Each lived beyond fourscore years and each crossed the threshold of the twentieth century. The lad from County Cork settled down to cut with saw and build with nails and hammer. The young, towheaded Swede fiddle-footed across the land, ...
Steven Raphael,Eugene Smolensky - 《American Economic Review》 被引量: 63发表: 2009年 The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States For more than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful truths about the relationship between immigration and crime: immigrants......
During the early twentieth century, Japan was modernizing in all areas of science and art, including children's literature. Ogawa Mimei (1882-1961) was a prolific writer who advanced various literary forms such as short stories, poems, e... N Horikawa - Portland State University. 被引量: 0...
Migration and the Welfare State: Political-Economy Policy Formation Epilogue In the nineteenth century, the words of Emma Lazarus's sonnet expressed so well the spirit of the free-immigration era in the United States that t... A Razin,E Sadka,B Suwankiri - 《Mit Press Books》 被引量: 77...
During the 13 years of the prohibition of thesaleofliquorin theUnited States(1920–33),fleetsof ships carried liquor fromEuropeand theWest Indiesto the Atlantic coast, while truckloads were run all along the Canadian frontier. In the second half of the 20th century, such drugs as heroin,coc...