Culture,Race, and the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants |
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Authors: | Reitz Jeffrey G. Sklar Sherrilyn M. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, M5T 1P9;(2) Present address: Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, M5S 1A1 |
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Abstract: | The economic assimilation of European-origin immigrants is fairly rapid but selectively culture contingent; the economic assimilation of racial minority immigrants is less rapid and less culture contingent. Regression analysis of survey data examines occupational status and earnings effects of eight ethnic attachments among men and women in seven ethnic and racial minorities in mainstream and enclave employment in Toronto (N = 1792), controlling for foreign and domestically acquired human capital. Assimilationist pressures that the survey showed to be widely perceived may apply more to Europeans than to racial minorities. Economic assimilation is affected when foreignness is most pronounced: very selectively for European immigrants and universally for racial minorities treated as foreign, presumably based on skin color, regardless of specific culture, identity, behaviors, or network affiliations. |
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Keywords: | immigrants assimilation culture ethnicity race inequality Toronto |
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