Abstract The hostile and patronizing attitudes of native Americans toward the increasing number of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe at the turn of the century raise a number of issues that bear on the history of U.S. immigration policy and on other matters. Utilizing Zellner's SUR technique, a model of settlement patterns of ten immigrant nationalities is estimated, and the appropriate F-statistics are generated to test several of these issues: (1) Did "new" immigrants behave as purposefully as contemporaneous "old" migrants from northwestern Europe? (2) Did they react as did the old migrants to a variety of socioeconomic factors? (3) Were the new migrants more dependent on the cultural support of earlier migrated countrymen? The findings indicate diverse, but purposeful, behavior within both the new and the old migrant groups with few systematic differences between them. Show Journal Information The Journal of Economic History is devoted to the multidisciplinary study of history and economics, and is of interest not only to economic historians but to social and demographic historians, as well as economists in general. The journal has broad coverage, in terms of both methodology and geographic scope. Topics covered include money and banking, trade, manufacturing, technology, transportation, industrial organisation, labour, agriculture, servitude, demography, education, economic growth, and the role of government and regulation. In addition, an extensive book review section keeps readers informed about the latest work in economic history and related fields. Instructions for Contributors at Cambridge Journals Online Publisher Information Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org) is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions and winner of 81 Nobel Prizes. Cambridge University Press is committed by its charter to disseminate knowledge as widely as possible across the globe. It publishes over 2,500 books a year for distribution in more than 200 countries. Cambridge Journals publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals across a wide range of subject areas, in print and online. Many of these journals are the leading academic publications in their fields and together they form one of the most valuable and comprehensive bodies of research available today. For more information, visit http://journals.cambridge.org. Rights & Usage This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. Read Online (Free) relies on page scans, which are not currently available to screen readers. To access this article, please contact JSTOR User Support . We'll provide a PDF copy for your screen reader. With a personal account, you can read up to 100 articles each month for free. Get StartedAlready have an account? Log in Monthly Plan
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journal article Earnings Differences between Old and New U.S. ImmigrantsThe Pacific Sociological Review Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan., 1982) , pp. 97-106 (10 pages) Published By: University of California Press https://doi.org/10.2307/1388889 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1388889 Read and download Log in through your school or library Alternate access options For independent researchers Read Online Read 100 articles/month free Subscribe to JPASS Unlimited reading + 10 downloads Purchase article $41.50 - Download now and later Abstract Recent investigations have noted that immigrants to the United States from Asian and Latin American countries (the new national origin countries) are not faring as well economically as immigrants from European countries. This study sets forth possible reasons these patterns obtain, one of which is that immigrants from the new countries have less of the characteristics associated with higher economic attainment than immigrants from the European countries. To test this hypothesis, we take data from the 1970 Census of Population and apply a regression standardization approach in which all immigrants are assigned the compositional characteristics of a standard population. Even after their earnings have been adjusted statistically, the Asian and Latin American immigrants still earn less than immigrants from the old national origin countries. Publisher Information Founded in 1893, University of California Press, Journals and Digital Publishing Division, disseminates scholarship of enduring value. One of the largest, most distinguished, and innovative of the university presses today, its collection of print and online journals spans topics in the humanities and social sciences, with concentrations in sociology, musicology, history, religion, cultural and area studies, ornithology, law, and literature. In addition to publishing its own journals, the division also provides traditional and digital publishing services to many client scholarly societies and associations. Rights & Usage This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. What was different about these new immigrants?Unlike earlier immigrants, who mainly came from northern and western Europe, the "new immigrants" came largely from southern and eastern Europe. Largely Catholic and Jewish in religion, the new immigrants came from the Balkans, Italy, Poland, and Russia.
What was one way old immigrants differed from new immigrants in the 1800s?What was one way "old" immigrants differed from "new" immigrants in the 1800s? The "old" immigrants often had property and skills, while the "new" immigrants tended to be unskilled workers. Southern and Eastern Europe.
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