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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 591–617.
Published: 01 August 2008
... social capital into resources (information about or assistance with migration), sources (prior migrants), and recipients (potential migrants). Analysis of multilevel and longitudinal data from 22 rural villages in Thailand shows that the probability of internal migration increases with the available...
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 263–274.
Published: 01 May 1972
... rates of awareness of and response to earnings differentials by potential migrants. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1972 1972 Potential Migrant Human Migration Total Stock Earning Differential Current Stock References Reports . ( 1954 ). Dublin...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 989–1015.
Published: 08 May 2015
... of men and women from four Latin American countries (Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic) to the United States. Network ties are a form of social capital that provides potential migrants with access to resources in their sending and receiving countries, but not all forms of social...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1683–1711.
Published: 01 October 2022
... associated with larger increases in first-migration probabilities than educational attainment (a primary form of human capital) and household material wealth (a measure indicative of potential migrants' relative deprivation levels)—both of which are considered primary drivers of migration. Despite...
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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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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1543–1570.
Published: 18 August 2015
..., which play an important role in connecting sending communities in Mexico to destinations in the United States (Munshi 2003 ), mediate this process. Although jobs present a strong pull for potential Mexican migrants to the United States, social networks guide both the decision to migrate...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1159–1173.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to the baseline survey for current migrants and for Mexican residents, as well as to control for the potential health selectivity of migrants, the results provide a clearer picture of the consequences of immigration for Mexican migrant health than have previous studies. Our findings demonstrate that current...
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 257–261.
Published: 01 May 1972
... in urban employment may occur in low-wage in- dustries, as such jobs may be attractive to potential migrants "whose alterna- tives elsewhere are either unemployment or still lower wages" (Lowry, 1966). Em- ployment growth is also important in Muth's explanation of net migration, for he argues...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 585–592.
Published: 01 November 1994
...Xiushi Yang Abstract Studies of migrant adjustment often conclude that results apply only to remaining migrants. This paper examines the potential bias in using the difference between remaining migrants and natives as a measure of migrant adjustment. The results document that differences between...
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 849–863.
Published: 01 November 2007
...%, respectively, and friendship ties increase their wages by 5.4% and 3.6%, correspondingly. Furthermore, family ties seem to comparatively favor legal migrants in terms of earnings, raising their wages by approximately 0.9% more than for similar unauthorized migrants. These results underscore the potentially...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1853–1868.
Published: 18 September 2015
... States and subsequent migration history, we find direct evidence of higher probabilities of return migration for Mexican migrants in poor health as well as lower probabilities of return for migrants with improving health. These findings are robust to the inclusion of potential confounders reflecting...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 449–476.
Published: 15 March 2012
... are lower for migrants compared with nonmigrants; however, they do not vary depending on the volume of migration in communities. Migrants are more likely than nonmigrants to “marry up” educationally because the relatively small size of this group compels them to expand their pool of potential spouses...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2229–2254.
Published: 08 November 2014
.... This gap seems to be largely explained by an increased risk of miscarriage or abortion among recent migrants. Increasing access to contraceptives for recent migrants has the potential to reduce the incidence of unwanted pregnancies, lower the prevalence of unsafe abortion, and contribute to improved...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 73–99.
Published: 23 February 2011
... into the migrant family-member population, thus accounting for a potentially serious source of bias. The results suggest that youth in migrant-sending families are less likely to complete the educational transitions leading up to postsecondary school and have a lower probability of participating in the local...
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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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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 49–72.
Published: 03 February 2011
... countries leave the parental home. The result may be seen as evidence of how the potential effects of cultural norms are counter-affected by other factors, such as the facilities of the welfare state and the awkward position of migrant youth between two cultures. Considering the pathways out of home...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 May 2007
... are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor health of an elderly parent has less impact on the probability of employment as a migrant when an adult child has siblings who may be available to provide care. We also highlight the potential importance of including information on nonresident...
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Demography (1988) 25 (4): 567–579.
Published: 01 November 1988
... of variation in regional population growth (Rogers, 1979). Unlike births and deaths, migration events may alter population sizes by several persons, since populations of potential migrants are usually organized into households that may migrate as intact units. Migration behavior has generally been analyzed...
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 665–681.
Published: 01 November 1972
... studies. THE AGGREGATE RELATIONSHIPS: MODEL SPECIFICATION In contemplating his decision to mi- grate, the individual who is a potential migrant is faced with a large array of alternative destinations, including his present location. (In this, as in many similar studies, the migration rate is formulated...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 769–790.
Published: 01 November 2005
... theories of migration. Neoclassical models of migration consider the migration decision in a cost-bene t framework in which potential migrants compare the expected utility from income at the point of origin to the expected utility from net income at possible migration destinations (Harris and Todaro 1970...
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