The Challenges of Emigrants in Lower Scaled Occupations

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i write better in english than i speak. And for a long time, when i move to the us, ie felt that i'm not really myself,. Ine, nobody laughs at my jokes, even when i tell them. Even if you are enunciating the words and syllables and letters correctly, you don't surround well expected phrases with well expected contects. There're certain words that you expect to hear in a punch line, say, that you are not aware of as a foreigner. It's like amos osi used to say, in hebrew, i say what i can, what iat what i want. And in English, i say,

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.