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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 425–447.
Published: 16 March 2012
.... 2001 ; Hummer et al. 1999b ; Markides and Eschbach 2005 ; Read and Emerson 2005 ; Singh and Siahpush 2002 ). Despite a large number of studies on the health of the U.S. foreign-born population, there are numerous gaps in our knowledge about the role of migrant selectivity. Most prior research...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Migrant</span> <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> and the Health of U.S. Immigrants From the Former Soviet Union
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 347–357.
Published: 01 November 1969
...Harley L. Browning; Waltraut Feindt Abstract A proper evaluation of native-migrant differences requires information on migrant selectivity. Are migrants positively or negatively selective or are they representative of the populations from which they originate? This question was posed for a sample...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Selectivity</span> of <span class="search-highlight">Migrants</span> to a Metropolis in a Developing Country: A Mexican Case Study
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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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View articletitled, Return Migration <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> and Its Impact on the <span class="search-highlight">Migrant</span> Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data
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for article titled, Return Migration <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> and Its Impact on the <span class="search-highlight">Migrant</span> Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1335–1360.
Published: 21 August 2012
...Filiz Garip Abstract To evaluate the distributional impact of remittances in origin communities, prior research studied how migrants’ selectivity by wealth varies with migration prevalence in the community or prior migration experience of the individual. This study considers both patterns...
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View articletitled, Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in 119 Communities From the Mexican Migration Project Data
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2203–2228.
Published: 19 November 2014
... demand for Mexican immigrants in the United States. Decreases in labor demand in industrial sectors that employ a large percentage of Mexican-born workers, such as construction, are found to be strongly associated with lower rates of migration for Mexican men. Second, changes in migrant selectivity...
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View articletitled, Explaining the Decline in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Effect of the Great Recession
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for article titled, Explaining the Decline in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Effect of the Great Recession
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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...
View articletitled, Migration Processes, Familial Characteristics, and Schooling Dropout Among Black Youths
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Demography (1990) 27 (4): 601–616.
Published: 01 November 1990
... countries, which also serve as indicators of migrant selection and adaptation. 9 1 2011 15 11 1989 15 4 1990 © Population Association of America 1990 1990 Child Mortality Birth Interval Child Survival Migrant Child Child Fosterage References Abu-Lughod , J...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 865–883.
Published: 15 April 2016
...Andrés Villarreal Abstract Recent studies have found international migrants from developing countries such as Mexico to be negatively selected by education; that is, they are less educated than those who stay behind. Moving beyond the question of whether migrants are negatively selected...
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View articletitled, The Education-Occupation Mismatch of International and Internal <span class="search-highlight">Migrants</span> in Mexico, 2005–2012
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for article titled, The Education-Occupation Mismatch of International and Internal <span class="search-highlight">Migrants</span> in Mexico, 2005–2012
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 221–246.
Published: 01 February 2022
... at destination, disruption due to migration, or migrant selectivity ( Andersson 2004 ; Carlson 1985 ; Goldstein 1973 ; Kahn 1988 ; Milewski 2007 ; Singley and Landale 1998 ). Although this growing literature has enhanced our understanding of how and why childbearing patterns may vary over the life course...
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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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for article titled, Cohort, Policy, and Process: The Implications for <span class="search-highlight">Migrant</span> Fertility in West Germany
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 233–257.
Published: 21 January 2015
...Elizabeth Nauman; Mark VanLandingham; Philip Anglewicz; Umaporn Patthavanit; Sureeporn Punpuing Abstract We investigate the impacts of rural-to-urban migration on the health of young adult migrants. A key methodological challenge involves the potentially confounding effects of selection...
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View articletitled, Rural-to-Urban Migration and Changes in Health Among Young Adults in Thailand
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2013–2035.
Published: 07 September 2013
... patterns for Irish migrants to England. Our results suggest a strong role for economic selection in driving the dynamics of health differences between Irish-born migrants and white English populations. Basic health disparities are displayed in Fig. 2 , which plots fractions in poor health by birth...
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View articletitled, Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 175–200.
Published: 13 January 2017
... migrant height and smoking levels just prior to immigration to test for self-selection; and we analyze smoking behavior since immigration, controlling for self-selection, to assess protection. We study individuals aged 20–49 from five major national origins: India, China, the Philippines, Mexico...
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View articletitled, Explaining the Immigrant Health Advantage: Self-<span class="search-highlight">selection</span> and Protection in Health-Related Factors Among Five Major National-Origin Immigrant Groups in the United States
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 May 1975
... on demographic characteristics would indicate that all streams are selective of the younger and unmarried population, with women predominating in urbanwards movements and men in those to rural areas. However, when compared in terms of socioeconomic characteristics, migrants are more sharply differentiated among...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1631–1648.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Shiro Furuya; Jihua Liu; Zhongxuan Sun; Qiongshi Lu; Jason M. Fletcher Abstract Migration is selective, resulting in inequalities between migrants and nonmigrants. However, investigating migration selection is empirically challenging because combined pre- and post-migration data are rarely...
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View articletitled, Understanding Internal Migration: A Research Note Providing an Assessment of Migration <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> With Genetic Data
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 569–593.
Published: 01 April 2024
... can be attributed to selection into migration and return, although significant gaps persist among women with similar socioeconomic characteristics. Our findings highlight three key observations. First, when migrants return before beginning childbearing, their transition to motherhood closely resembles...
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View articletitled, Return Migration and Fertility: French Overseas Emigrants, Returnees, and Nonmigrants at Origin and Destination
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2005–2030.
Published: 15 November 2016
... be partially attributable to selective return migration among less healthy migrants—often referred to as “salmon bias.” Our study takes advantage of a rare opportunity to observe the health status of Mexican-origin males as they cross the Mexican border. To assess whether unhealthy migrants...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 183–209.
Published: 22 January 2011
...Randall Kuhn; Bethany Everett; Rachel Silvey Abstract Recent studies of migration and the left-behind have found that elders with migrant children actually experience better health outcomes than those with no migrant children, yet these studies raise many concerns about self-selection. Using three...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 73–99.
Published: 23 February 2011
...://international.ipums.org/international Miranda A. ( 2007 ). Migrant networks, migrant selection, and high school graduation in Mexico. (IZA Discussion Paper No. 3204) . Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor . 2004 yearbook of immigration statistics . ( 2005 ). Washington : U.S. Department of Homeland...
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View articletitled, The Effect of Family Member Migration on Education and Work Among Nonmigrant Youth in Mexico
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 979–1007.
Published: 27 April 2018
...Philip Anglewicz; Mark VanLandingham; Lucinda Manda-Taylor; Hans-Peter Kohler Abstract Despite its importance in studies of migrant health, selectivity of migrants—also known as migration health selection —has seldom been examined in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This neglect is problematic because...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 352–377.
Published: 01 June 1966
... percent were found to be migrants from outside the metropolitan area. A high level of flow has been sustained for several decades, for only 60 percent of the total in-migrants have arrived during the last twenty years. Migration to Santiago was found to be selective by sex. For each two male in-migrants...
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