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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now

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How to Assimilate Emigrants to a Country With an Aliens Language

The standard story is that new imigrants, they don't assimilate. And we've made it too easy for em too many language ckand things that they don't have to learn english. Yet you find that assimilation hasn't changed very much. But a lea tells how you actually try to measure it. We look at who emigrants marry and whether their neighbourhoods are more integrated than in the past. The names immigrants choose for their own children can also be used as indicators of assimilation.

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