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经济系seminar（10月31日）
发布时间：2013-10-28
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时间：周四下午3点-5点
地点：后主楼1722
主持人：李实教授
报告人：Corrado Giulietti，Director of Research at IZA（Institute for the Study of Labor)
题目：The Americanization of Migrants' Names and its Economic Payoff
Abstract
We examine the impact of name Americanization on labor market outcomes of migrants by constructing a novel longitudinal data set of immigrant naturalization records in 1930 New York. We find that changing into an American name improves labor market outcomes. Compared to name keepers, migrants who change into more popular American names have larger increases in occupational status, with gains of up to 14% for changing into very common names such as John or William. We find that name Americanization leads to increased earning capacity, and that this increase is larger for Southern European migrants. Our results are robust across several specifications, which include individual fixed effects, as well as nationality and local labor market-specific trends. We show that our estimates of the returns from name Americanization are causal effects by using instrumental variable methods where we use an index of linguistic complexity based on Scrabble points to predict changes in name Americanization intensity. Our results highlight the tradeoffs between individual identity and labor market success, suggesting that the assimilation process in the first half of the twentieth century passed through economic as well as cultural assimilation.