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The new immigrant survey pilot (NIS-P): Overview and new findings about U.S. Legal immigrants at admission
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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...
View articletitled, The new <span class="search-highlight">immigrant</span> survey pilot (NIS-P): Overview and new findings about U.S. <span class="search-highlight">Legal</span> <span class="search-highlight">immigrants</span> at admission
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Estimating the emigration rates of legal immigrants using administrative and survey data: The 1971 cohort of immigrants to the United States
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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...
View articletitled, Estimating the emigration rates of <span class="search-highlight">legal</span> <span class="search-highlight">immigrants</span> using administrative and survey data: The 1971 cohort of <span class="search-highlight">immigrants</span> to the United States
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A Test of the Validity of Imputed Legal Immigration Status
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 283–306.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Marcelo Castillo; Alexandra Hill; Thomas Hertz Abstract We evaluate the performance of a widely used technique for imputing the legal immigration status of U.S. immigrants in survey data—the logical imputation method. We validate this technique by implementing it in a nationally representative...
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View articletitled, A Test of the Validity of Imputed <span class="search-highlight">Legal</span> <span class="search-highlight">Immigration</span> Status
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Can We Spin Straw Into Gold? An Evaluation of Immigrant Legal Status Imputation Approaches
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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...
View articletitled, Can We Spin Straw Into Gold? An Evaluation of <span class="search-highlight">Immigrant</span> <span class="search-highlight">Legal</span> Status Imputation Approaches
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Immigrant Legal Status and Health: Legal Status Disparities in Chronic Conditions and Musculoskeletal Pain Among Mexican-Born Farm Workers in the United States
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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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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Immigrant</span> <span class="search-highlight">Legal</span> Status and Health: <span class="search-highlight">Legal</span> Status Disparities in Chronic Conditions and Musculoskeletal Pain Among Mexican-Born Farm Workers in the United States
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for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Immigrant</span> <span class="search-highlight">Legal</span> Status and Health: <span class="search-highlight">Legal</span> Status Disparities in Chronic Conditions and Musculoskeletal Pain Among Mexican-Born Farm Workers in the United States
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The Association Between Legal Status and Poverty Among Immigrants: A Methodological Caution
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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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View articletitled, The Association Between <span class="search-highlight">Legal</span> Status and Poverty Among <span class="search-highlight">Immigrants</span>: A Methodological Caution
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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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View articletitled, State <span class="search-highlight">Immigration</span> Policy Contexts and Racialized <span class="search-highlight">Legal</span> Status Disparities in Health Care Utilization Among U.S. Agricultural Workers
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Family reunification and the immigration multiplier: U.S. immigration law, origin-country conditions, and the reproduction of immigrants
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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...
View articletitled, Family reunification and the <span class="search-highlight">immigration</span> multiplier: U.S. <span class="search-highlight">immigration</span> law, origin-country conditions, and the reproduction of <span class="search-highlight">immigrants</span>
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for article titled, Family reunification and the <span class="search-highlight">immigration</span> multiplier: U.S. <span class="search-highlight">immigration</span> law, origin-country conditions, and the reproduction of <span class="search-highlight">immigrants</span>
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Does Information Change Attitudes Toward Immigrants?
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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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Undocumented Mexican immigrants and the earnings of other workers in the United States
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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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Coming to stay: An analysis of the U.S. Census question on immigrants’ year of arrival
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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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The new labor market: Immigrants and wages after IRCA
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 May 1999
... . ( 1983 ). Louisville, KY : American Chamber of Commerce Research Association . Bailey , T. ( 1985 ). The Influence of Legal Status on the Labor Market Impact of Immigration. . International Migration Review , 19 , 220 – 38 . 10.2307/2545770 Bansak, C. and S. Raphael. 1998...
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How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Affect Unauthorized Immigrants?
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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...
View articletitled, How Do Tougher <span class="search-highlight">Immigration</span> Measures Affect Unauthorized <span class="search-highlight">Immigrants</span>?
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Legal, undocumented, and overall accuracy rates in the NAWS. Accuracy rates...
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Fig. 1 Legal, undocumented, and overall accuracy rates in the NAWS. Accuracy rates are calculated as two-year moving averages across interview years and applying the NAWS sampling weights. The overall accuracy rate is estimated as the share of the immigrant population whose imputed immigration
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U.S. Immigrants’ labor market adjustment: Additional Human capital investment and Earnings Growth
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 865–881.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Akresh I. Redstone ( 2006 ). Occupational Mobility Among Legal Immigrants to the United States . International Migration Review , 40 , 854 – 85 . 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2006.00046.x Ashenfelter, O. 1975. “The Effect of Manpower Training on Earnings: Preliminary Results.” Pp. 252-60...
View articletitled, U.S. <span class="search-highlight">Immigrants</span>’ labor market adjustment: Additional Human capital investment and Earnings Growth
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Do amnesty programs reduce undocumented immigration? Evidence from Irca
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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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The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1487–1506.
Published: 25 June 2018
... residency status, they cannot legally work or vote and are under the threat of deportation. Recent efforts to reform immigration policies have focused on expanding opportunities for “dreamers” because public sympathy for them remains strong. Since 2001, legislators have attempted to enact...
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DACA's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States
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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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Circular, invisible, and ambiguous migrants: Components of difference in estimates of the number of unauthorized Mexican migrants in the United States
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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...
View articletitled, Circular, invisible, and ambiguous migrants: Components of difference in estimates of the number of unauthorized Mexican migrants in the United States
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The number of illegal migrants of Mexican origin in the United States: Sex ratio-based estimates for 1980
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Demography (1983) 20 (1): 99–109.
Published: 01 February 1983
... Mexican Origin Illegal Migrant Legal Immigrant Naturalize Citizen References
Bean F. D. , & Swicegood G. ( 1982 ). Generation, Female Education and Fertility Among Mexican Americans . Social Science Quarterly , 63 , 131 – 144 .
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