Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility: Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

We thank Jaime Arellano-Bover, David Autor, Peter Blair, Leah Boustan, Kristin Butcher, Aimee Chin, Michael Clemens, Melissa Dell, Mette Foged, Jennifer Hunt, Elisa Jacome, Juanna Joensen, Scott Kominers, Derek Neal, Matti Sarvimäki, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Marco Tabellini, and seminar participants for helpful comments. We thank the National Science Foundation, Harvard Business School, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for financial support. The research in this paper was conducted while the authors were Special Sworn Status researchers of the U.S. Census Bureau. Any views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data used to produce this product. This research was performed at a Federal Statistical Research Data Center under FSRDC Project Number 1571. (CBDRB-FY23-P1571-R10504, R11656, R11724). This research uses data from the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics Program, which was partially supported by the following National Science Foundation Grants SES-9978093, SES-0339191 and ITR-0427889; National Institute on Aging Grant AG018854; and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• January 17, 2024