TY  - JOUR
AU  - Butcher,Kristin F.
AU  - Piehl,Anne Morrison
TI  - Recent Immigrants: Unexpected Implications for Crime and Incarceration
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6067
PY  - 1997
Y2  - June 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6067
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6067.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Kristin Butcher
Department of Economics
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
Tel: 781/283-2179
Fax: 781/283-2177
E-Mail: kbutcher@wellesley.edu

Anne Piehl
Department of Economics
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Jersey Hall
75 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ  08901-1248
E-Mail: apiehl@economics.rutgers.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1998-01-01
AB  - 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.
ER  -