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Estimate of the migrant family member effect on the likelihood of labor for...
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Published: 23 February 2011
Fig. 3 Estimate of the migrant family member effect on the likelihood of labor force participation: Mexican youth ages 15–18. The dashed lines provide a measure of uncertainty on the average treatment effect for the treated, which is given by the solid black line. These bands, which do
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Relative deprivation and international migration oded stark
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 1989
... role in households’ migration decisions, but international migration by household members who hold promise for success as labor migrants can also be an effective strategy to improve a household’s income position relative to others in the household’s reference group. The findings reported...
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Declining Return Migration From the United States to Mexico in the Late-2000s Recession: A Research Note
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1049–1058.
Published: 09 July 2011
... a specialist demographic survey, the National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID). Declines in annual return-migration flows of up to a third between 2007 and 2009 were seen among the predominantly labor-migrant groups of male migrants and all 18- to 40-year-old migrants with less than a college education...
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Men’s Migration and Women’s Fertility in Rural Mozambique
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1029–1048.
Published: 21 June 2011
... contraceptives among women married to labor migrants and among women married to nonmigrants. At the same time, we explicitly link women’s reproductive intentions to the outcomes of their husbands’ migration. This approach is rooted in a more general conceptualization of fertility decisions as contingent not only...
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The Gravity of High-Skilled Migration Policies
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 603–630.
Published: 13 March 2017
...-country assessment of policies aimed to attract and select high-skilled workers. Points-based systems are much more effective in attracting and selecting high-skilled migrants than requiring a job offer, labor market tests, and shortage lists. Offers of permanent residency, while attracting the highly...
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Labor of Love: Immigrant–Native Intermarriage and Labor Force Outcomes Across European Union Member States
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 571–597.
Published: 01 April 2025
...) augmented with country-level indicators from the European Social Survey (ESS) and Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) to assess substantive changes in immigrant labor force outcomes across twenty European Union (EU) countries from 2008 to 2018, and we link these changes to aspects of the institutional...
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Postimmigration investments in Education: a Study of Immigrants in the Netherlands
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 883–898.
Published: 01 November 2007
... migrated for family reasons, and immigrants who arrived in periods of high unemployment. These ndings generally support the IHCI model. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2007 2007 Labor Market Human Capital Unemployment Rate Host Country Labor Migrant References...
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Remittances in the Republic of Georgia: Correlates, Economic Impact, and Social Capital Formation
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1279–1301.
Published: 13 February 2013
... , 1320 – 1350 . 10.1086/230191 Rapoport , H. , & Docquier , F. ( 2005 ). The economics of migrants’ remittances (IZA Discussion Paper No. 1531). Bonn, Germany : Institute for the Study of Labor . Reichert , J. S. ( 1981 ). The migrant syndrome: Seasonal U.S. wage labor...
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Child Mobility, Maternal Status, and Household Composition in Rural South Africa
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 699–718.
Published: 20 January 2012
... )—and therefore need to be considered in any analysis of child mobility. Mothers are increasingly mobile in pursuing employment and educational opportunities and because of union formation and dissolution. Although men historically have been the majority of labor migrants in South Africa, female internal labor...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 221–246.
Published: 01 February 2022
... on migrant selectivity and settlement processes. In many Western countries, restrictions on labor migration in the mid-1970s led to the increased prominence of family reunification and marriage migration ( Akgündüz 1993 ). Previous work has suggested that family migration is important for childbearing...
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View articletitled, Cohort, Policy, and Process: The Implications for <span class="search-highlight">Migrant</span> Fertility in West Germany
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Social networks and their impact on the earnings of Mexican Migrants
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 849–863.
Published: 01 November 2007
...: Learning About Legal Status and Wages From the Legalized Population . Journal of Labor Economics , 20 , 598 – 628 . 10.1086/339611 Kossoudji S. , & Ranney S.I. ( 1986 ). Wage Rates of Temporary Mexican Migrants to the U.S.: TheRole of Legal Status . Ann Arbor : Population...
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Economic opportunity in mexico and return migration from the United States
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 357–374.
Published: 01 August 1996
... and strategies of Mexican migrants in the United States. T he size of the migrant labor supply in an immigrant- receiving area has two basic dimensions: the number of en- tering migrant laborers and the average duration that mi- grants stay. In the case of Mexican migration to the United States a considerable...
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On the auspices of female migration from Mexico to the United States
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 187–200.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Decision of Mexican Men and Women.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 19–25, Washington, DC. Kossoudji , S. , & Ranney , S.I. ( 1984 ). The Labor Market Experience of Female Migrants: The Case of Temporary Mexican Migration to the U.S...
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Playing Cat and Mouse at the U.S.-Mexican Border
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 159–180.
Published: 01 May 1992
... trips and stay in Mexico for shorter spells between trips to compensate for the cost of a past apprehension. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1992 1992 Return Migrant Regulate Labor Market Undocumented Migrant Temporary Migrant Migration Network References...
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Return Migration to Mexico: Does Health Matter?
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1853–1868.
Published: 18 September 2015
... . Demography , 33 , 357 – 374 . 10.2307/2061767 . Loh , K. , & Richardson , S. ( 2004 ). Foreign-born workers: Trends in fatal occupational injuries, 1996–2001 . Monthly Labor Review , 127 , 42 – 53 . Lu , Y. , & Qin , L. ( 2014 ). Healthy migrant and salmon bias...
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A study of migration to Greater Santiago (Chile)
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 352–377.
Published: 01 June 1966
... of migrants was lower than that of natives. This differential was especially great among women. The recent migrants have a greater rate of labor-force participation than the other groups. Among males, the rate for migrants was 84 percent and for natives 78 percent. The differential is even greater...
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Understanding Household Dynamics From the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study From a Rural South African Setting
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 31–57.
Published: 01 February 2024
...—remained relatively constant. Along with the decrease in household deaths following the introduction of ART around 2009 and the rising prevalence of labor migrants, these descriptive patterns suggest a possible transition of population demographics, gradually moving toward a middle-aged to older-age...
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Recent Trends in Coverage of the Mexican-Born Population of the United States: Results From Applying Multiple Methods Across Time
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 699–726.
Published: 26 February 2014
..., and anachronistic workers: Does the United States need unskilled immigrant labor? . American Behavioral Scientist , 56 , 1008 – 1028 . 10.1177/0002764212441784 Bean , F. D. , King , A. G. , & Passel , J. S. ( 1983 ). The number of illegal migrants of Mexican origin in the United States...
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Africans in the American Labor Market
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1513–1542.
Published: 25 August 2015
... the implications of these changes for their labor market outcomes in the United States. Using the 2000–2011 waves of the American Community Survey, we present a picture of enormous heterogeneity in labor market participation, sectoral choice, and hourly earnings of male and female migrants by country of birth...
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Migration and Unrest in the Deep South Thailand: A Multilevel Analysis of a Longitudinal Study
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 727–745.
Published: 18 February 2020
... and sending setting for migration. The country has hosted almost 4 million labor migrants from its neighboring countries in the Mekong subregion, including Myanmar, Lao PDR, and Cambodia (International Labour Organization 2018 ). At the same time, although Thailand is not a major country for sending labor...
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