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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 175–200.
Published: 13 January 2017
... statistically significant and substantial self-selection, particularly among men from both higher-skilled (Indians and Filipinos in height, Chinese in smoking) and lower-skilled (Mexican) undocumented pools. We also find significant and substantial protection in smoking among immigrant groups with stronger...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 349–356.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Richard Alba; Amy Lutz; Elena Vesselinov Abstract A long-standing and unresolved issue in the study of racial and ethnic groups concerns the persistence of initial inequalities among groups. Recently it has surfaced again in the study of U.S. immigrant groups, in George Borjas’s (1994) claim...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 993–1012.
Published: 04 December 2012
... gradients are patterned by time in the United States. Past work has shown that immigrants tend to converge to U.S. BMI levels over time (Antecol and Bedard 2006 ). Depending on the U.S. social group into which they are assimilating, increased time spent in the United States may expose immigrants...
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in The Comparability of Perceived Physical and Mental Health Measures Across Immigrants and Natives in the United States
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Published: 01 August 2021
Fig. 1 Latent means of health variables by immigrant status and ethnoracial group. Scaling of the estimated means is arbitrary, and only mean differences can be interpreted meaningfully. The reference group, with a mean of zero, is White natives. Higher scores refer to higher degrees of reported
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1873–1896.
Published: 29 November 2012
...Matthew Hall Abstract This article explores patterns and determinants of immigrant segregation for 10 immigrant groups in established, new, and minor destination areas. Using a group-specific typology of metropolitan destinations, this study finds that without controls for immigrant-group...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 131–152.
Published: 01 February 2005
... is not fully understood. This study of 32 U.S. immigrant groups found that although nearly all immigrants are more educated than those who remain in their home countries, immigrants vary substantially in their degree of selectivity, depending upon the origin country and the timing of migration. Uncovering...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 477–498.
Published: 10 February 2012
... of immigrants. Black migrant parents, regardless of foreign-born status, have children with favorable schooling outcomes. Such parental-level influences, however, seem stronger among some immigrant groups than among native internal migrants. The study also suggests that the collective advantage of the children...
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 467–484.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Richard Alba; John Logan; Amy Lutz; Brian Stults Abstract We investigate whether a three-generation model of linguistic assimilation, known from previous waves of immigration, can be applied to the descendants of contemporary immigrant groups. Using the 5% Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 699–726.
Published: 26 February 2014
...Jennifer Van Hook; Frank D. Bean; James D. Bachmeier; Catherine Tucker Abstract The accuracy of counts of U.S. racial/ethnic and immigrant groups depends on the coverage of the foreign-born in official data. Because Mexicans constitute by far the largest single national-origin group among...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 645–671.
Published: 08 January 2014
...Magnus Strömgren; Tiit Tammaru; Alexander M. Danzer; Maarten van Ham; Szymon Marcińczak; Olof Stjernström; Urban Lindgren Abstract Research on segregation of immigrant groups is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas toward other important places, such as the workplace, where...
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 883–898.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Frank Van Tubergen; Herman van De Werfhorst Abstract We use a unique data source to examine postimmigration investments in education among four immigrant groups in the Netherlands. We derive hypotheses from the Immigrant Human Capital Investment model (IHCI), which argues that immigrants...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 995–1022.
Published: 01 June 2022
... rare immigrant group using NSM and achieve high response rates; (2) demonstrate the feasibility of the collection and benefits of new forms of network data that transcend kinship networks in existing surveys and can address unresolved questions about the role of social networks in migration decisions...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1293–1315.
Published: 24 August 2011
... for the enclave thesis. Our results further indicate that for some immigrant groups, ethnic enclave participation actually has a negative effect on economic outcomes. 2 8 2011 24 8 2011 The mixed results of previous research on the economic outcomes of immigrants working in ethnic enclaves may...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1059–1080.
Published: 22 June 2011
... serious sources of bias that together significantly overstate fertility levels: difficulties in estimating the size of immigrant groups; the tendency for migration to occur at a particular stage in life; and, most importantly, the tendency for women to have a birth soon after migration. When these sources...
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 525–548.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Zai Liang Abstract This paper proposes a new way of measuring naturalization, which takes into account both emigration and death. I argue that the new method corrects for underestimation and thus provides a more accurate measure of the concept. Using data from six groups of the 1973 immigrant...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 297–322.
Published: 07 February 2020
... the three most prominent immigrant groups compared with native-born women in each receiving country. Interacted logistic regression analyses and margins results demonstrate significant nativity-based differences in the odds of childbearing across age, previous childbearing, and marital status...
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The demography of disability and the effects of immigrant history: Older Asians in the United States
Demography (2007) 44 (2): 251–263.
Published: 01 May 2007
... the population aged 65 and over, our evidence suggests that it occurs primarily among the U.S.-born segments of this population. We also investigate how differences in disability levels among Asian immigrant groups are influenced by country of birth and by the combined effects of duration of residence...
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Published: 01 April 2024
Fig. 3 Share of immigrants in the Medicaid-only group. Panel a shows the share of agricultural workers classified as legal using the BC algorithm owing to Medicaid alone. Panel b shows the corresponding summary for all, high-skill, and low-skill immigrants. “Low-skill” are workers who have
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Published: 01 April 2024
Fig. 4 ACA expansion effect on the share of immigrants in the Medicaid-only group. All panels show coefficients and 95% confidence intervals from state-clustered standard errors from implementing Eq. (4) . We weigh the regressions by the state size of the relevant group. Coefficients capture
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1423–1443.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Fig. 1 Latent means of health variables by immigrant status and ethnoracial group. Scaling of the estimated means is arbitrary, and only mean differences can be interpreted meaningfully. The reference group, with a mean of zero, is White natives. Higher scores refer to higher degrees of reported...
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