The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization
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- Costanza Biavaschi & Corrado Giulietti & Zahra Siddique, 2017. "The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 35(4), pages 1089-1116.
- Costanza Biavaschi & Corrado Giulietti & Zahra Siddique, 2014. "The economic payoff of name Americanization," Working Papers 14009, Economic History Society.
- Costanza Biavaschi & Corrado Giulietti & Zahra Siddique, 2013. "The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization," Economics Discussion Papers em-dp2013-08, Department of Economics, University of Reading.
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Keywords
assimilation; names; Americanization; migration;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
- N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2013-11-22 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2013-11-22 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2013-11-22 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2013-11-22 (Economics of Human Migration)
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