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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 127–138.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Guillermina Jasso; Douglas S. Massey; Mark R. Rosenzweig; James P. Smith Abstract This paper provides an overview of the New Immigrant Survey Pilot (NIS-P), a panel survey of a nationally representative sample of new legal immigrants to the United States based on probability samples...
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Demography (1982) 19 (3): 279–290.
Published: 01 August 1982
..., of the FY1971 cohort of legal immigrants to the United States as of January 1979. The merged data indicate that the cumulative net emigration rate for the entire cohort could have been as high as 50 percent. Canadian emigration was probably between 51 and 55 percent. Emigration rates for legal immigrants from...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 329–354.
Published: 16 December 2014
...Jennifer Van Hook; James D. Bachmeier; Donna L. Coffman; Ofer Harel Abstract Researchers have developed logical, demographic, and statistical strategies for imputing immigrants’ legal status, but these methods have never been empirically assessed. We used Monte Carlo simulations to test whether...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 1–24.
Published: 05 December 2018
...Erin R. Hamilton; Jo Mhairi Hale; Robin Savinar Abstract Immigrant legal status determines access to the rights and privileges of U.S. society. Legal status may be conceived of as a fundamental cause of health, producing a health disparity whereby unauthorized immigrants are disadvantaged relative...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2327–2335.
Published: 29 October 2020
...Cody Spence; James D. Bachmeier; Claire E. Altman; Christal Hamilton Abstract Using nationally representative survey data, this research note examines the association between immigrant legal status and poverty in the United States. Our objective is to test whether estimates of this association vary...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2079–2107.
Published: 01 December 2022
... affect groups by nativity, race/ethnicity, and legal status. Linking data from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (2005–2012) with information on state immigration policies, we use an intersectional approach to examine the links between policy contexts and health care utilization by nativity, race...
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 291–311.
Published: 01 August 1986
...Guillermina Jasso; Mark R. Rosenzweig Abstract This paper reports estimates of the total numbers of actual legal immigrants to the United States that result from the family reunification provisions of U.S. immigration law. These immigration multipliers are estimated separately for major visa...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 1117–1143.
Published: 18 June 2020
... experiments with samples from the United States, providing one-half of the participants with five statistics about immigration. This information bundle improves people’s attitudes toward current legal immigrants. Most effects are driven by Republicans and other groups with more negative initial attitudes...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 35–52.
Published: 01 February 1988
.... Legal immigrants’ effects on native white earnings, however, are small and negative. The results are consistent with the possibility that undocumented Mexican immigrants’ jobs complement those of other workers. The implications for public policy concerns about the effects of illegal Mexican immigration...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 721–738.
Published: 01 November 2004
... not correspond to the year of either the first or the last U.S. trip. Because many immigrants enter and leave the United States several times before becoming legal immigrants, the census question produces estimates of U.S. experience that are quite different from those produced by direct questions about trip...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 May 1999
... the pre-IRCA period, the duration of time a mi- grant had spent in the United States was the primary deter- minant of wage rates; but after IRCA legal status became the most important factor, with undocumented migrants earning IMMIGRANTS AND WAGES AFTER IRCA lower wages and being far more likely than...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1067–1091.
Published: 27 March 2013
.... In a recent and unique survey of Mexican unauthorized immigrants interviewed upon their voluntary return or deportation to Mexico, almost a third reported experiencing difficulties in obtaining social or government services, finding legal assistance, or obtaining health care services. Additionally, half...
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 437–450.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Pia M. Orrenius; Madeline Zavodny Abstract This article examines whether mass legalization programs reduce future undocumented immigration. We focus on the effects of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which granted amnesty to nearly 2.7 million undocumented immigrants. We report...
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 865–881.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., and Vietnam. These ve countries represented 41% of all legal immigrants admitted to the United States in 2002 and in 1996 (the year of admission of the immigrants studied in this paper), and averaged 62% secondary school enrollment (World Development Indicators, World Bank 2005).2 The lower schooling...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1487–1506.
Published: 25 June 2018
..., but they come to face the realities of their illegal residency status as they transition into adulthood (Gonzales 2011 ; Gonzales et al. 2014 ). Without legal residency status, they cannot legally work or vote and are under the threat of deportation. Recent efforts to reform immigration policies have...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 975–985.
Published: 01 June 2021
... the association between this expansion of legal rights and birth outcomes among 72,613 singleton births to high school–educated Mexican immigrant women in the United States from June 2010 to May 2014, using birth records data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Exploiting the arbitrariness...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 411–422.
Published: 01 August 2001
... a difference between the nonnative population enumerated in the census or the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the legally resident immigrant population: that is, this quantity equaled the enu- merated foreign-born population minus legally resident im- migrants. This approach was called the residual method...
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Demography (1983) 20 (1): 99–109.
Published: 01 February 1983
... than the Unit- ed States is negligible, we interpret any deficit of persons implied by the analysis of sex ratios in Mexico (after allowance for census underenumeration) as owing to net out-migration to the United States. This figure, in turn, consists of three parts. One involves legal immigrants en...
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Published: 25 August 2015
Fig. 2 Percentage of all African-origin migrants who came from Egypt, South Africa, and Morocco and obtained permanent legal status by decade (1950–2009). Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, Statistical Yearbook of Immigration and Naturalization Service ( 1982 –2001); U.S. Department
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 349–356.
Published: 01 August 2001
... and even the second generation suffered from legal and social liabilities different from those endured by Euro- peans. Immigration from Japan was barred by bilateral agree- ment (1907 1908) and by legislation; immigration from China, by the Chinese Exclusion Acts (beginning in 1882). Immigrants from Asia...
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