Please call me John: name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900–1930

Pedro Carneiro; Sokbae Lee; Hugo Reis

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2019.101778

Please call me John: name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900–1930

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae Lee, Hugo Reis^*

^*Autor correspondente para este trabalho

Resultado de pesquisa › revisão de pares

11 Citações (Scopus)

32 Transferências (Pure)

Resumo

The majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted American first names. In this paper we study the economic determinants of name choice, by relating the propensity of immigrants to carry an American first name to the local concentration of their compatriots and local labor market conditions. We find that high concentrations of immigrants of a given nationality discouraged members of that nationality from taking American names, in particular for more recent arrivals. In contrast, labor market conditions for immigrants do not seem to be associated with more frequent name changes among immigrants.

Idioma original	English
Número do artigo	101778
Número de páginas	18
Revista	Labour Economics
Volume	62
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2019.101778
Estado da publicação	Publicado - jan. 2020

ODS da ONU

Este resultado contribui para o(s) seguinte(s) Objetivo(s) de Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Acesso ao documento

10.1016/j.labeco.2019.101778Licença:

20226941Final published version, 860 KBLicença:

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/32286Licença:

Outros arquivos e links

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075567839&partnerID=8YFLogxK

CUBE: Católica Lisbon Research Unit in Business and Economics
Machado, F. (PI), Aranda, A. M. (Investigador), Costa, A. I. D. A. (Investigador), Martins, A. P. (Investigador), Bernard, A. (Investigador), Fidalgo, A. (Investigador), Reis, C. (Investigador), Abecassis-Moedas, C. (Investigador), Santos, C. (Investigador), Tran, D. (Investigador), Fernandes, D. (Investigador), Bonfim, D. (Investigador), Schliephake, E. (Investigador), Kalogirou, F. (Investigador), Reis, F. (Investigador), Santos, F. (Investigador), Machado, F. (Investigador), Sguera, F. (Investigador), Cerqueiro, G. (Investigador), Reis, H. (Investigador), Barreto, I. (Investigador), Silva, J. (Investigador), Salvado, J. C. (Investigador), Neves, J. C. D. (Investigador), Gijsbrechts, J. (Investigador), Stahl, J. (Investigador), Guedes, J. C. (Investigador), Faias, J. (Investigador), Wagner, L. (Investigador), Correia, I. (Investigador), Saldanha, M. F. (Investigador), Fontes, J. C. (Investigador), Modesto, L. (Investigador), Meira, M. (Investigador), Matos, M. G. D. (Investigador), Gouveia, M. (Investigador), Kozeniauskas, N. (Investigador), Bertani, N. (Investigador), Couzoff, P. (Investigador), Barroso, P. (Investigador), Encarnação, P. (Investigador), Raposo, P. (Investigador), Teles, P. (Investigador), Bastos, W. (Investigador), Bohnsack, R. (Investigador), Vale, R. C. D. (Investigador), Ferreira, R. (Investigador), Lloyd-Braga, T. (Investigador), Ramus, T. (Investigador), Colaço, V. H. (Investigador), Cavicchini, A. (Investigador), Parada, P. (Investigador), Pieters, R. (Investigador), Pinto, F. A. G. D. L. S. (Investigador), Colaço, V. H. (Investigador) & Venter, Z. (Investigador)
1/01/20 → 31/12/24
Projeto

Citação

@article{6ea93415e4ec4e2f906ad6c0e08c8e54,

title = "Please call me John: name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900–1930",

abstract = "The majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted American first names. In this paper we study the economic determinants of name choice, by relating the propensity of immigrants to carry an American first name to the local concentration of their compatriots and local labor market conditions. We find that high concentrations of immigrants of a given nationality discouraged members of that nationality from taking American names, in particular for more recent arrivals. In contrast, labor market conditions for immigrants do not seem to be associated with more frequent name changes among immigrants.",

keywords = "Americanization, Culture, First name, Identity, Immigration JEL classification code, J15, N32",

author = "Pedro Carneiro and Sokbae Lee and Hugo Reis",

year = "2020",

month = jan,

doi = "10.1016/j.labeco.2019.101778",

language = "English",

volume = "62",

journal = "Labour Economics",

issn = "0927-5371",

publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Please call me John

T2 - name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900–1930

AU - Carneiro, Pedro

AU - Lee, Sokbae

AU - Reis, Hugo

PY - 2020/1

Y1 - 2020/1

N2 - The majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted American first names. In this paper we study the economic determinants of name choice, by relating the propensity of immigrants to carry an American first name to the local concentration of their compatriots and local labor market conditions. We find that high concentrations of immigrants of a given nationality discouraged members of that nationality from taking American names, in particular for more recent arrivals. In contrast, labor market conditions for immigrants do not seem to be associated with more frequent name changes among immigrants.

AB - The majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted American first names. In this paper we study the economic determinants of name choice, by relating the propensity of immigrants to carry an American first name to the local concentration of their compatriots and local labor market conditions. We find that high concentrations of immigrants of a given nationality discouraged members of that nationality from taking American names, in particular for more recent arrivals. In contrast, labor market conditions for immigrants do not seem to be associated with more frequent name changes among immigrants.

KW - Americanization

KW - Culture

KW - First name

KW - Identity

KW - Immigration JEL classification code

KW - J15

KW - N32

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075567839&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.labeco.2019.101778

DO - 10.1016/j.labeco.2019.101778

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85075567839

SN - 0927-5371

VL - 62

JO - Labour Economics

JF - Labour Economics

M1 - 101778

ER -

Please call me John: name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900–1930

Resumo

ODS da ONU

Acesso ao documento

Outros arquivos e links

Impressão digital

Projetos

CUBE: Católica Lisbon Research Unit in Business and Economics

Citação