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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 467–484.
Published: 01 August 2002
... 1990 file, we examine the home languages of second- and third-generation children and compare the degree of their language shift against that among the descendants of European immigrants, as evidenced in the 1940 and 1970 censuses. Overall, the rates of speaking only English for a number...
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 387–397.
Published: 01 August 1999
... of proficiency in English among various subgroups, and practical constraints. I describe shifts across censuses in the phrasing of questions about language, the coding of responses, and the subpopulations for which the questions were asked and the results were published. I then describe the data generated...
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 639–654.
Published: 01 November 2002
... English-proficient (LEP) children have become increasingly more likely to attend schools with low-income, minority, and LEP students than other non-LEP and LEP groups. Nearly all the change in school composition can be attributed to statewide shifts in the composition of the school-aged population...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 391–409.
Published: 01 August 2001
... on Marginal Labour Markets in Metropolitan Areas, October 10–12, Dublin. User Documentation for Public Use Microdata File on Individuals, 1991 Census of Canada . ( 1994 ). Ottawa : Statistics Canada . Stevens , G. ( 1986 ). Sex Differences in Language Shift in the United States . Sociology...
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 68–89.
Published: 01 March 1966
..., and Switzerland, than to deplore it. 6 like most of western Europe, has had to import workers from as far away as Spain, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey. While it is true that the majority of post-World War II migrants to Switzerland are Ital- ians, a radical shift has occurred in their origins also. Whereas...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2009
...: A Study of Professional Orchestral Players, Composers, and Choir Members . Psychology of Music , 22 , 148 – 56 . 10.1177/0305735694222004 Annett M. ( 1985 ). Left, Right, Hand and Brain: The Right Shift Theory . London : Lawrence Earlbaum . Annett M. ( 1992 ). Spatial Ability...
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Demography (1983) 20 (4): 461–489.
Published: 01 November 1983
... and expected number of survivors of an ethnic group between census dates is a net number; it does not reflect the gross amount of shifting in ethnic identi- ties. Thus, to take a hypothetical exam- ple, if a net 10percent of Ukrainians ages 20-24 appear to have shifted away from calling themselves Ukrainian...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 537–554.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Zachary Zimmer; Kim Korinek Abstract What we know about transitions in coresidence of elders in China is based on panel data involving survivors. This article examines the tendency to and determinants of shifts in coresidence with adult children among the very old, comparing survivors...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 759–783.
Published: 01 November 2003
... is predicted to shift on the basis of generational status and language background. Positive values on other covariates would indicate that those who were behind the first time they were observed caught up (or those who were ahead pulled away), whereas negative values would indi- cate that they fell behind...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 May 1999
... conditions of undocumented migrants, but studies have not yet identified the reasons for this change. Possible explanations include intentional discrimination by employers on the basis of legal status; a shift in employer hiring practices in sectors that employ undocumented work- ers; increased competition...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1929–1951.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., or national groups.” Within the literature on ethnoracial boundary formation, panethnicity is treated as a form of boundary expansion in which the salient boundary shifts from a lower to a higher level within a nested hierarchy of possible identification ( Wimmer 2008 ). 1 From this perspective...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 865–890.
Published: 01 June 2023
... vital rates and changes in aggregate population structures. The boundaries of the field have since shifted. Demography has morphed into a multidisciplinary field concerned with interpreting and explaining the individual- and macro-level causes and consequences of population change and structures...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1483–1508.
Published: 01 October 2024
... for daytime and nighttime populations among metropolitan census tracts, our empirical analyses investigate the extent to which the process of daytime mobility for work relates to changes in the racial and ethnic diversity of different spaces. Our results indicate widespread daily shifts toward diversity...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2083–2108.
Published: 10 December 2019
... and contextual experiences with education and travel across an individual’s lifetime. The third is well-defined shifts in specific dimensions of social organization occurring largely outside the control of those being studied. International aid to Nepal shaped the location, timing, and content of local schools...
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1369–1391.
Published: 10 June 2020
... on demographic transition theory emphasizes the direct impact of changes in demographic traits on household structure (Jiang and O’Neill 2007 ). Almost all countries have experienced or are experiencing the demographic transition featured as a shift from high mortality and fertility rates to low mortality...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 463–491.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... , & van Tubergen F. ( 2015 ). Mixed parents, mixed results: Testing the effects of cross-nativity partnership on children's educational attainment . Sociological Perspectives , 58 , 145 – 167 . Fishman J. A. ( 1966 ). Language maintenance and language shift: The American immigrant case...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 1101–1130.
Published: 10 April 2014
...-Latino and Latino Pacific Islanders, respectively. Group sizes change as a result of new identity decisions by new immigrants or for mixed-heritage newborns (cf. Waters 1999 ) or shifts in established identity among those with longer tenure in the society (cf. Loveman and Muniz 2007 ; Sturm...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 603–630.
Published: 01 April 2021
... for a future pregnancy with women's recollections of those desires after they conceived, more Black women shifted positive than shifted negative, and Black women were more likely to shift positive than White women—that is, Black women do not differentially retrospectively overreport prospectively desired...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1167–1194.
Published: 01 July 2015
... this shift, the implications for parenting and child well-being are not known. Drawing on a sample of U.S. black and white mothers with nonmarital conceptions from the NLSY79, our study fills this gap. Using propensity score techniques to address concerns about selection bias, we found that mid-pregnancy...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1275–1300.
Published: 01 August 2021
... 1990 ; Williams 2001 ), its manifestation differs across labor market segments, with long hours expected in many professional/managerial jobs and open availability and flexibility to work any shift expected in many low-wage service jobs ( Cha and Weeden 2014 ; Lambert 2008 ; Williams 2010...
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