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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 798–808.
Published: 01 June 1967
... and their “children,” the second generation. The assumption that recent immigration has been negligible and that the foreign born represent a closed population is implicit in that procedure. However, analysis of official statistics indicates that immigrants who arrived since World War II now comprise a substantial...
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 267–283.
Published: 01 August 1978
...Charles B. Keely; Ellen Percy Kraly Abstract Estimates of the size and structure of recent alien immigration to the United States are made. Substituting these revised estimates in the Series II projections of the U.S. Bureau of the Census implies a future U.S. population smaller than that implied...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 133–145.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Mary M. Kritz; Douglas T. Gurak Abstract In this paper we examine the internal migratory response, by native-born non-Hispanic white men and foreign-born men in the United States, to recent immigration. Our analysis does not support the claim that natives have made a migratory response to recent...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 363–373.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Deborah Reed Abstract In this paper I investigate the impact of recent immigration on males’ earnings distributions in the major regions of the United States. I use six counterfactual scenarios to describe alternative regional skill distributions and wage structures for the population of natives...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 485–511.
Published: 26 February 2015
...Lisa Kaida Abstract Despite widespread interest in poverty among recent immigrants and female immigrant employment, research on the link between the two is limited. This study evaluates the effect of recently arrived immigrant women’s employment on the exit from family poverty and considers...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 225–249.
Published: 01 May 2007
... patterns in the composition and stability of their households relative to nonimmigrants in both Mexico and the United States. Recent immigrants are more likely to reside in an extended family or non-kin household, and among those living with relatives, recent immigrants are more likely to live...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1475–1485.
Published: 25 June 2018
...Joni Hersch; Jennifer Bennett Shinall Abstract Although immigrants to the United States earn less at entry than their native-born counterparts, an extensive literature has found that immigrants have faster earnings growth that results in rapid convergence to native-born earnings. However, recent...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 May 1997
... that of the native born. This optimistic picture of immigrant economic assimilation was challenged by the important finding that compared to earlier immigrant cohorts, recent immigrants started at much lower wages. As such, the high wage growth of immigrants relative to the native born measured in cross-sectional...
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 411–429.
Published: 01 August 1991
... ancestry question from the perspective of measuring ethnicity. The question adds little information about Hispanics, racial minorities, or recent immigrants, who can be identified readily on the basis of other census inquiries. The ancestry question allows us to characterize the descendants of European...
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Demography (1971) 8 (2): 157–169.
Published: 01 May 1971
...Charles B. Keely Abstract Recent changes in immigration law have affected the characteristics of immigrants coming to the United States. The major changes in immigration policy contained in the 1965 Immigration Act, which amended the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, concerned the abolition of the quota...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 August 2001
..., the Dominican Republic, and Cuba). Recent Mexican immigrants who arrived as teenagers have nonenrollment rates over 40%, but Mexican youths who arrived at younger ages are only somewhat less likely to be enrolled in school than are native-born Americans. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America...
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Demography (1976) 13 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 February 1976
...Monica Boyd Abstract This paper discusses recent migration to North America with reference to the 1962 and 1967 Canadian immigration regulations and the 1965 United States Immigration and Nationality Act. Despite the similar emphasis on manpower and kinship criteria as the basis for the admission...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1159–1173.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and work under unhealthy conditions that expose them to infectious disease, environmental toxins, injury, and other health risks (Acevedo-Garcia 2001 ; Kandel and Donato 2009 ; Orrenius and Zavodny 2009 ). A related stressor is the increasingly hostile political climate for recent immigrants...
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 587–616.
Published: 01 November 2002
..., Constitutional and Theoretical Meanings of Alien Suffrage . University of Pennsylvania Law Review , 141 , 1391 – 470 . 10.2307/3312345 “Recent Legislation: Immigration Law—Education—California Extends Instate Tuition Benefits to Undocumented Aliens—Act Relating to Public Postsecondary Education.” 2002...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1109–1134.
Published: 06 July 2016
.... The African- and Asian-origin populations had the largest percentage of recent immigrants, with close to 30 % reporting an arrival in 1990 or later. The European-born were the most likely to hold U.S. citizenship (more than 80 %), while those born in Central America were the least likely (about 55...
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 181–198.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Paul S. Maxim Abstract Historically, self-employment was perceived as a mechanism whereby immigrants could circumvent discriminatory practices in wage labor. More recent research by Borjas in the United States, however, suggests that this view is incorrect. Immigrants, particularly members...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 477–498.
Published: 10 February 2012
... of immigrants may be disadvantaged relative to the children of native migrants. Among recent migrants, the children of native internal migrants also have more favorable outcomes than the children of immigrants, although these differences disappear after background factors are controlled. Further, internal...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1559–1584.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of labor market flows by migrant status uncover the flow origins of disparities in the levels and cyclicality of immigrant and native labor market outcomes and their more recent convergence. An application of our accounting framework reveals that population flows have played a nontrivial role...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1897–1919.
Published: 09 May 2013
... that this census and the attendant population counts were undoubtedly the most affected by the recent passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). As displayed in Table 1 (which summarizes the hypotheses and results of the study), males, cohorts aged 15–44, and recent entrants are found...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 651–671.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Emilio A. Parrado; S. Philip Morgan Abstract In recent decades, rapid growth of the U.S. Hispanic population has raised concerns about immigrant adaptation, including fertility. Empirical research suggests that Hispanics, especially Mexicans, might not be following the historical European pattern...
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