Recent Immigrants: Unexpected Implications for Crime and Incarceration / Kristin F. Butcher, Anne Morrison Piehl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butcher, Kristin F.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Piehl, Anne Morrison.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6067.

NBER working paper series no. w6067

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Recent Immigrants

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1997.

Summary:

Among 18-40 year old men in the United States, immigrants are less likely to be institutionalized than the native-born, and much less likely to be institutionalized than native-born men with similar demographic characteristics. Furthermore, earlier immigrants are more likely to be institutionalized than more recent immigrants. Although all immigrant cohorts appear to assimilate toward the higher institutionalization rates of the native-born as time in the country increases, recent immigrants do not increase their institutionalization rates as quickly as one would predict from the experience of earlier immigrant cohorts. These results are the opposite of what one would predict from the literature on immigrant earnings, where earlier immigrants are typically found to have better permanent labor market characteristics.

Notes:

Print version record

June 1997.