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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 511–536.
Published: 01 August 2006
... at risk of dropping out. However, cultural capital and immigrant optimism buffer first-generation Hispanic youth and the children of Asian immigrants from the risk of dropping out of high school. While human and social capital resources improve with immigrant generation, cultural capital diminishes...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Charles Hirschman Abstract An analysis of 1990 census data on the educational enrollment of 15- to 17-year-old immigrants to the United States provides partial support for predictions from both the segmented-assimilation hypothesis and the immigrant optimism hypothesis. Most immigrant adolescents...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 268–305.
Published: 01 March 1968
... the computer-based optimization of the model shows a downward trend. The use of the word “cultural” leaves something to be desired, since such phenomena as war, prosperity, and immigration excluded from C are nevertheless products of culture. With the analytical form of the differential equation describing...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1031–1058.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Immigrant selectivity Horizontal stratification Postsecondary education Field of study Immigrant optimism Successful incorporation of children from disadvantaged immigrant families into the educational systems of Western immigrant-receiving...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1777–1802.
Published: 27 September 2018
... for the remaining age groups 0–4 years to 55–59 years are distributed to immigration and emigration using optimization. For age group x , p x is the proportion of e x (error) distributed to immigration I ̂ x , and 1 – p x is the proportion distributed to emigration E ̂ x...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 219–245.
Published: 01 February 2021
... the immigrant experience has a duality: immigrants may be select and highly motivated (i.e., immigrant optimism), but they must also contend with postmigration institutional and racial/ethnic barriers (i.e., immigrant pessimism; Louie 2012 ). To better understand how immigrant parents' pre- and postmigration...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1307–1333.
Published: 12 July 2012
... on immigration and emigration flows offer a more promising avenue but are not immune to problems. To illustrate, we present in Fig. 1 the migration reports of sending and receiving countries in the EU-15 in 2003, obtained from Eurostat’s New Cronos database (Kupiszewska and Nowok 2008 :43–45). Of 420 possible...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 391–409.
Published: 01 August 2001
... of birthplace dichotomous variables. A MODEL OF LANGUAGE ATTAINMENT The model of language attainment is based on the assump- tion that language skills are a form of investment in human capital. Immigrants who are not already proficient in the dominant destination language(s) make optimal investments...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 93–118.
Published: 04 January 2017
... by economic hardship and job characteristics. Moreover, mothers’ employment patterns differ by race/ethnicity and nativity. Nonwhite women (blacks, Hispanics, and Asians) who were employed before childbirth exhibited greater labor market continuation than white women. For immigrant women, those with a shorter...
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 339–350.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Patricia B. Reagan; Randall J. Olsen Abstract In this paper we analyze the economic and demographic factors that influence return migration, focusing on generation 1.5 immigrants. Using longitudinal data from the 1979 youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLSY79), we track residential...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1207–1233.
Published: 01 August 2023
... were less likely to be employed, marry, or have children or to combine these roles, while educational differences were narrow among Black women and mixed among Latina women. Moreover, there is some evidence that Latina immigrant women receive fewer occupational returns to increasing education levels...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 777–804.
Published: 17 May 2016
... reported also for cardiovascular disease mortality (Chang et al. 2011 ), diabetes-related mortality (Vandenheede et al. 2012 ), and various other causes of death (Grundy and Kravdal 2010 ). Mirowsky ( 2002 , 2005 ) found an optimal age at first birth for women’s health in the early 30s, and a negative...
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 885–905.
Published: 01 November 2008
... to the United States are different from their counterparts at home. Third, it is plausible that immigrant mothers do not exhibit gender preference because the economic and policy environment in the United States changes parents decision-making problem such that gender-biased investments are no longer optimal...
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 563–581.
Published: 01 August 2007
... 2004). The 1990s also ushered in an unprecedented demographic in ux of foreign-born Hispanic immigrants, especially from Mexico and other parts of Latin America, to new rural destinations in the Midwest and South (Kandel and Cromartie 2004; Lichter and Johnson 2006). These emerging rural settlement...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1423–1443.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Cunningham et al. [2008] for the United States, McDonald and Kennedy [2004] for Canada, and Martini et al. [2010] for Europe). Immigration Measurement equivalence Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) Alignment optimization IPUMS Health Surveys Copyright © 2021 The Authors...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 641–650.
Published: 01 August 2008
... Stable Population Vital Rate Dependency Ratio References Bacaër N. ( 2003 ). The Asymptotic Behavior of the McKendrick Equation With Immigration . Mathematical Population Studies , 10 , 1 – 20 . 10.1080/08898480306716 Espenshade T.J. , Bouvier L.F. , & Arthur...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 975–985.
Published: 01 June 2021
... proposal. Millions of immigrants and their U.S.-born children would benefit from such a law. References Abrego L. J. ( 2018 ). Renewed optimism and spatial mobility: Legal consciousness of Latino deferred action for childhood arrivals recipients and their families in Los Angeles...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 307–336.
Published: 01 April 2024
... neighborhoods), which provided affordable housing to poor and working-class minorities or immigrants ( Gotham 2002 ). Unscrupulous real estate agents and subprime predatory lenders understood that incentivizing the entry of a few minority homeowners into a neighborhood often resulted in White flight and rapid...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 809–835.
Published: 01 June 2023
... power is optimal once prospects for saving from higher incomes in the destination country decline ( Kırdar 2009 ). A few studies investigated the economic considerations for return migration at retirement age among Mexican immigrants in the United States. Vega (2015) found no association between...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 329–354.
Published: 16 December 2014
... the imputation method, the simulations identify the optimal method. We alter the missing data patterns in the simulation data to assess the performance of the methods when the joint observation condition is not met. We further assessed how much the methods would improve if prior information about immigrants...
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