Shattering immigration myths
The New Bazaar
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Immigrants Are Not a Blow on the Taxpayer
Yeo: I want to focus on naming conventions because i thought this was fascinating. So explain what happens in terms of emigrants who move to the country naming their kids either a very strongly ethnic names, or do they shift towards american names overtime? Yeo: What is an American name? That's really hard to measure in another yelf, and that changes a lot over time. And then we followed immigrant families as they arrived in the us,. And had multiple kids. The first kid may have after a year or two, and the second kid maybe five or six years into their stay in the us. They were shifting away from those ethnic sounding names as they spend more time in
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