Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
| العنوان: | Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930 |
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| المؤلفون: | Sokbae Lee, Pedro Carneiro, Hugo Reis |
| المساهمون: | Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| المصدر: | Labour Economics Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| بيانات النشر: | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn, 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Immigration JEL classification code, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Economics and Econometrics, Culture, Americanization, culture, first name, identity, immigration, Identity, 0502 economics and business, 050602 political science & public administration, ddc:330, First name, 050207 economics, 10. No inequality, N32, J15, 050208 finance, 05 social sciences, 0506 political science, jel:N32, 8. Economic growth, jel:J15 |
| الوصف: | The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival. Choice of an American first name was associated with a more successful assimilation, as measured by job occupation scores, marriage to a US native and take-up of US citizenship. We examine economic determinants of name choice, by studying the relationship between changes in the proportion of immigrants with an American first name and changes in the concentration of immigrants as well as changes in local labor market conditions, across different census years. We find that high concentrations of immigrants of a given nationality in a particular location discouraged members of that nationality from taking American names. Poor local labor market conditions for immigrants (and good local labor market conditions for natives) led to more frequent name changes among immigrants. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::750312f4400e49334f92c609517375f8 https://hdl.handle.net/10419/141551 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....750312f4400e49334f92c609517375f8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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