Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Economic Progress of Immigrants 15
6. 2. The Educational Attainment of Immigrants Trends and Implications 51
7. 3. Diversity and Immigration 117
8. 4. Convergence in Employment Rates of Immigrants 143
9. 5. The Changing Skill of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants 185
10. 6. The More Things Change: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s 227
11. 7. Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance? 271
12. 8. Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born 309
13. 9. The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants 351
14. Contributors 387
15. Author Index 389
16. Subject Index 393