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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 131–152.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Cynthia Feliciano Abstract Current immigration research has revealed little about how immigrants compare to those who do not migrate. Although most scholars agree that migrants are not random samples of their home countries’ populations, the direction and degree of educational selectivity...
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Demography (1971) 8 (2): 157–169.
Published: 01 May 1971
... and for Other Purposes. Report No. 745, 89th Congress, 1st Session. U. S. Senate. 1965. Amending the Immigration and Nationality Act and for Other Purposes. Report No. 748, 89th Congress, 1st Session. DEMOGRAPHY Volume 8, Number 2 May 1971 EFFECTS OF THE IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1965 ON SELECTED POPULATION...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 175–200.
Published: 13 January 2017
...Fernando Riosmena; Randall Kuhn; Warren C. Jochem Abstract Despite being newcomers, immigrants often exhibit better health relative to native-born populations in industrialized societies. We extend prior efforts to identify whether self-selection and/or protection explain this advantage. We examine...
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 649–668.
Published: 01 August 2007
... States are of significantly higher educational level and experience significantly faster rates of earnings assimilation in their new destination than their counterparts who immigrated to Israel. We present evidence that patterns of self-selection in immigration to Israel and the United States—on both...
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Selection, Language Heritage, and the Earnings Trajectories of Black Immigrants in the United States
Demography (2014) 51 (3): 975–1002.
Published: 23 May 2014
... black and non-Hispanic white men as well as black immigrant men from all the major sending regions of the world, I evaluate whether selective migration and language heritage of immigrants’ birth countries account for the documented earnings crossover. I validate the earnings pattern of black immigrants...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 425–447.
Published: 16 March 2012
... of smoking and heavy alcohol use compared with U.S.-born whites. We further investigate disability by period of arrival among FSU immigrants. Changes in Soviet emigration policies conceivably altered the level of health selectivity among émigrés. We find evidence that FSU immigrants who emigrated during...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 219–245.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of immigrants would attain even more if they faced fewer postmigration barriers, especially children of low-skilled immigrants. These results advance immigrant selection and assimilation theories by demonstrating how pre- and postmigration factors influence occupational attainment of children of immigrants...
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Published: 22 November 2019
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Published: 27 September 2018
Fig. 8 Age-sex compositions of immigrants born in selected countries or regions by period of entry, 2011. For each age-sex composition, males are on the left, and females are on the right
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1031–1058.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of immigrant parents, whose parents often have moderate absolute levels of education relative to native-born parents but tend to be positively selected on education relative to nonmigrants in the origin country. Using rich administrative data from Norway, we study the educational careers of immigrant...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 603–630.
Published: 13 March 2017
... skilled, overall reduce the human capital content of labor flows because they prove more attractive to non-high-skilled workers. Bilateral recognition of diploma and social security agreements foster greater flows of high-skilled workers and improve the skill selectivity of immigrant flows. Conversely...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1335–1357.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Michel Guillot; Myriam Khlat; Romeo Gansey; Matthieu Solignac; Irma Elo Abstract The migrant mortality advantage (MMA) has been observed in many immigrant-receiving countries, but its underlying factors remain poorly understood. This article examines the role of return migration selection effects...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 477–498.
Published: 10 February 2012
... of immigrants is driven by positive migrant selectivity. Accordingly, comparisons between the children of native migrants and children in various immigrant groups reveal that the immigrant advantage is not robust. In fact, the results suggest that when immigrant ethnicity is considered, some children...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 297–322.
Published: 07 February 2020
...Guadalupe Aguilera; Kim Korinek Abstract Because immigrant fertility is situated within two societies, the resultant childbearing patterns reflect a culmination of selectivity into migration alongside blended experiences of origin-destination contexts around fertility norms. We analyze the ways...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 393–424.
Published: 25 January 2012
... confounding effects of selection on migration-related outcomes. This article addresses these challenges by employing a “natural experiment” design, involving comparisons among three population-based samples of Vietnamese immigrants, never-leavers, and returnees ( N = 709). Data were collected in Ho Chi Minh...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2005–2030.
Published: 15 November 2016
... 2016 © Population Association of America 2016 2016 Migrant health Health selection Return migration Deportation Mexican migrants A great deal of research has examined health differences between Mexican immigrant and native-born populations in the United States. Despite having...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 425–436.
Published: 30 April 2011
... health of first-generation, Mexican-origin immigrant women in the United States. The analysis provides evidence that a curvilinear pattern of duration and birth outcomes can be explained by the joint effects of both acculturation and selective return migration in which the former affects health status...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 645–671.
Published: 08 January 2014
... estimates from ordinary least squares with fixed-effects regressions to quantify the extent of immigrants’ self-selection into specific workplaces, neighborhoods, and partnerships, which may bias more naïve ordinary least squares results. In line with previous research, we find lower levels of workplace...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 655–684.
Published: 01 April 2021
... report lower levels of hardship than the native-born, especially if one conditions on income, because immigrants are often positively selected. That is, immigrants are healthier and may have other characteristics, such as ambition, that could mitigate hardship ( Raleigh and Kao 2010 ). Thus, the goal...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 485–511.
Published: 26 February 2015
.... The results suggest that the equal earner/female breadwinner model applies to low-income recent immigrant families in general, but the male breadwinner model explains the low probability of poverty exit among select non-European groups whose female employment rates are notably low. 30 1 2015 26 2...
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