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Age at Arrival and Life Chances Among Childhood Immigrants

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Erschienen in: Demography | Ausgabe 1/2017

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This study examines the causal relationship between childhood immigrants’ age at arrival and their life chances as adults. I analyze panel data on siblings from Norwegian administrative registries, which enables me to disentangle the effect of age at arrival on adult socioeconomic outcomes from all fixed family-level conditions and endowments shared by siblings. Results from sibling fixed-effects models reveal a progressively stronger adverse influence of immigration at later stages of childhood on completed education, employment, adult earnings, occupational attainment, and social welfare assistance. The persistence of these relationships within families indicates that experiences related to the timing of childhood immigration have causal effects on later-life outcomes. These age-at-arrival effects are considerably stronger among children who arrive from geographically distant and economically less-developed origin regions than among children originating from developed countries. The age-at-arrival effects vary less by parental education and child gender. On the whole, the findings indicate that childhood immigration after an early-life formative period tends to constrain later human capital formation and economic opportunities over the life course.

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Numerous studies have reported a positive relationship between language skills and labor market outcomes (e.g., Dustmann and Soest 2002; Kossoudji 1988; McManus et al. 1983; Tainer 1988).

Identification of language-related effects of age at arrival rests on the assumption that all other age-at-arrival effects (i.e., those not related to language acquisition) are shared by children arriving in the host society (i.e., the United States and Australia) from Anglophone and non-Anglophone origin countries.

Prior to 1970, immigration to Norway primarily consisted of citizens from the Nordic countries and other Western Europeans who came to seek work or who immigrated because of family connections.

Norwegian registry-based data on year of arrival are based on the first registered stay in official statistics, whereas census or survey data used in similar studies from Australia, Canada, and the United States often rely on self-reported information by immigrants on when they first arrived, arrived for the current stay, or simply arrived (Redstone and Massey 2003).

For the calculation of stable employment, the basic amount is doubled and would equal approximately U.S. $18,200.

This information is available only from 2003. From this year onward, I use information on all annual observations when the child is 30 years or older.

Because of few observations, the South American and African origin regions were merged.

Full regression estimates for the full sample are available upon request.

These calculations use the exp(β) – 1 formula. Note also that for the analysis of log earnings conditional on employment, the sibling sample is further limited to persons in families where at least two siblings were above the employment cutoff.

The main effects of origin region and parental education will be absorbed by the sibling fixed effects.

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Titel: Age at Arrival and Life Chances Among Childhood Immigrants
verfasst von: Are Skeie Hermansen
Publikationsdatum: 04.01.2017
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Demography / Ausgabe 1/2017
Print ISSN: 0070-3370
Elektronische ISSN: 1533-7790
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0535-1

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