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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 617–628.
Published: 01 November 1995
...B. Lindsay Lowell; Jay Teachman; Zhongren Jing Abstract The record-keeping requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act(IRCA), and fines for illegal employment, may induce employers to discriminate against foreign-appearing workers. The General Accounting Office (GAO) reported widespread...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1275–1300.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Patrick Ishizuka Abstract Prior research provides important insights into employer discrimination against mothers but has focused exclusively on college-educated mothers in professional and managerial occupations. As a result, we lack evidence about whether less-educated mothers navigating the low...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2143–2167.
Published: 25 September 2020
...Ridhi Kashyap; Julia Behrman Abstract Son preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literature has explored whether parents invest more resources in sons relative to daughters—which we refer to as explicit discrimination —leading to girls’ poorer...
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Demography (1975) 12 (4): 665–668.
Published: 01 November 1975
...Mark R. Rosenzweig; Daniel A. Seiver 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1975 1975 Discriminant Analysis Socioeconomic Variable Potential Income Additional Birth Male Earning References Goldberger Arthur S. ( 1964 ). Econometric Theory . New York...
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 45–56.
Published: 01 February 1974
..., and education and the husband’s education and income. The method used is the discriminant-function analysis. The data are from the 1965 U. S. National Fertility Study. The combined discriminatory power of the social and economic background characteristics examined herein has been found to be greater at higher...
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in The Family Life Course and Health: Partnership, Fertility Histories, and Later-Life Physical Health Trajectories in Australia
> Demography
Published: 17 May 2016
Fig. 1 Discriminant function eigenvalues by number of clusters
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1573–1596.
Published: 09 September 2014
... premarket supply-side factors, such as noncognitive skills, rather than through pure labor market discrimination. At the other end of the weight spectrum, it seems as if underweight adolescent men are also punished through lower earnings as a consequence of their noncognitive skill levels. Nevertheless...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1243–1268.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation was banned, and an ombudsman office was introduced. This law strengthened the 1987 law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. The 2002 adoption law gave RPs the right to adopt jointly or as stepparents. 11 In Sweden, married...
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in Racialized Health Inequities: Quantifying Socioeconomic and Stress Pathways Using Moderated Mediation
> Demography
Published: 01 June 2023
, income, wealth, chronic stressors, financial strains, neighborhood disorder, neighborhood mistrust, everyday discrimination, multiple attributions of discrimination, major discrimination, and traumas. B = Black. W = White. M = Mexican American.
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 245–270.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Sonalde Desai; Veena Kulkarni Abstract Indian society suffers from substantial inequalities in education, employment, and income based on caste and ethnicity. Compensatory or positive discrimination policies reserve 15% of the seats in institutions of higher education and state and central...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 41–51.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Arthur Sakamoto; Huei-Hsia Wu; Jessie M. Tzeng Abstract The extent to which racial minority groups face discrimination in the labor market is the subject of considerable debate. Using William J. Wilson’s thesis of the declining significance of race as our theoretical context, we provide further...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 May 1999
... of IRCA, as well as the effects of its massive legalization program. Migrants ’ wages deteriorated steadily between 1970 and 1995, but IRCA did not foment discrimination against Mexican workers per se. Rather, it appears to have encouraged greater discrimination against undocumented migrants...
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 185–201.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Diane S. Lauderdale Abstract Persons who were perceived to be Arabs experienced a period of increased harassment, violence, and workplace discrimination in the United States in the weeks immediately following September 11, 2001. Drawing on prior studies that have hypothesized that experiences...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 351–359.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Arlyne I. Pozner Summary In the summer of 1965, the legislature of the state of Mississippi passed a law which required children whose parents were living in another state to pay up to $350 tuition in order to attend public school. On the belief that this law discriminated against Negroes...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1597–1618.
Published: 23 August 2014
... of the gap, implying a significant decline in economic discrimination against women. In contrast to discrimination, the role played by human capital and personal attributes in explaining the gender pay gap is relatively small in both sectors. Differences between the two sectors are not only in the size...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1427–1452.
Published: 15 July 2019
... of wide heterogeneity in the degree of local segregation or integration among caste groups. Building on a literature that identifies discrimination by quantifying whether differences in socioeconomic status (SES) can account for differences in health, we decompose height differences between rural children...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 469–492.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Becky Pettit; Stephanie Ewert Abstract Public policy initiatives in the 1950s and 1960s, including Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity law, helped mitigate explicit discrimination in pay, and the expansion of higher education and training programs have advanced the employment...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 341–369.
Published: 01 May 2009
... that is unaccounted for by mothers’ observable labor market behavior. We interpret this finding as indicating a comparatively more pronounced role for statistical discrimination against mothers in the German labor market. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2009 2009 Labor Market British...
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 763–790.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Sarah Burgard Abstract I examine racial differences in child stunting in mid-1990s South Africa and Brazil, two multiracial societies with different histories of legal support for racial discrimination. Using data from nationally representative household samples linked to community-level measures...
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Negativism, Equivocation, and Wobbly Assent: Public “Support” for the Prochoice Platform on Abortion
Demography (1981) 18 (3): 309–320.
Published: 01 August 1981
... justifications for abortion and reject others typically constitute about 50 percent of these samples. If forced to choose politically between polar positions, would these people be more likely to side with a positive or a negative extreme? Using Multiple Classification Analysis as a form of discriminant analysis...
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