| Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W.
Institute for the Study of Labor, IZA DP No.3596, July 2008, 68p
"This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census. Both the characteristics of immigrants and the origin-country variables are shown to be important determinants of citizenship status. The individual characteristics that have the most influence are educational attainment, age at migration, years since migration, veteran of the US armed forces, living with family, and spouses’ educational attainment. The country of origin variables of most importance are their degree of civil liberties and political rights, GDP per capita, whether the origin country recognizes dual citizenship, and the geographic distance of the origin country from the US." Barry R. Chiswick is research professor and head of the. Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Paul Miller is Professor of Economics at the University of Western Australia. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center.
Go to the report at:
http://ftp.iza.org/dp3596.pdf
E12/04-08, Posted October 14, 2008
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