How to Assimilate Emigrants to a Country With an Aliens Language

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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.

Immigration to the United States, say Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, is more novel than short story: It takes decades for new immigrants to catch up economically. But their kids on average thrive economically and have higher rates of upward mobility than American-born kids. Abramitzky and Boustan talk about their book Streets of Gold with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Using an extraordinary data set of millions of Americans, Boustan and Abramitzky find that today's immigrants and their children are surprisingly similar to yesterday's.