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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 181–198.
Published: 01 May 1992
... of visible minorities, are disadvantaged in both the wage labor and the self-employed markets. This pattern has not been replicated in Canada, however; after controlling for several socioeconomic attributes, it is found that foreign-born, self-employed visible minority-group members are not at a disadvantage...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 449–459.
Published: 01 November 2000
...Eric Fong; Kumiko Shibuya Abstract We used the 1991 Canadian census to examine the extent of spatial separation of the poor in Canadian cities. Although there were no extensive areas of blight, decay, or housing abandonment, we found high spatial separation of poor visible minorities...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 437–460.
Published: 14 April 2011
..., immigrant racial and ethnic identities have an important influence on segmented assimilation patterns. Immigrants with visible minority characteristics (e.g., black immigrants) are expected to be more likely than immigrants without those visible characteristics (e.g., non-Hispanic whites) to experience...
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Demography (1979) 16 (4): 553–563.
Published: 01 November 1979
... fOJ this group compare with those of other racial and ethnic minorities. Of particular interest is the comparison of patterns of Spanish American and black segregation. Both groups are large, highly visible ur- ban minorities with histories of discrimi- nation and socioeconomic exploitation; therefore...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 541–568.
Published: 01 April 2024
... as a visible minority (non-White) or as Indigenous (i.e., First Nations, Métis, or Inuit). Ideally, we would analyze visible minority and Indigenous status separately, but small sample sizes prevented us from doing so. For the United States, we identify four racial and ethnic groups: non-Hispanic White, non...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 491–510.
Published: 01 August 2006
... of the most-durable close friends, a group that may be substantially different but more important than the group of friends measured in surveys of classmates (Haillinan and Williams 1987; Reagans 1998). Several issues deserve careful consideration. First is the validity of visibly identifying minority groups...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2307–2332.
Published: 21 August 2014
... public and private behaviors of women in India to examine how gender and family norms are shaped in the context of communalized identity politics. Building on the theoretical framework of “doing gender,” we argue that because communal identities are expressed through externally visible behaviors, greater...
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 May 1995
.... Empowering "protected minority" groups has emerged as a national issue, notably in California, because of the state's racial and ethnic diversity. Yet although ethnic/racial pluralism is highly visible in that state, it is also emerging across the nation and, as in California, will transform the composition...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1581–1605.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... Similarly, existing theoretical narratives of demographic change focus on the general population and can, at best, explain why same-sex unions have become more visible in recent decades. These narratives provide little understanding of demographic change among sexual minorities in a context where...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): n1.
Published: 01 February 1999
... during our editorship. One of us, S. Philip Morgan, is coauthor of an article in the current issue. This article was reviewed and accepted for publication by the previous editor. Readers will note a few changes in the journal. The most visible change is the cover. Each issue will display a graphic from...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 293–301.
Published: 01 May 1991
.... This expectation is fulfilled for most of China, but severe misreporting of age is found in a province that contains a large minority of a non-Han nationality, which lacks precise knowledge of date of birth. Although the province contains only 1.3% of China’s population, male death rates above age 90 for all...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2053–2073.
Published: 01 August 2013
... risk of experiencing discrimination, but characteristics such as belonging to a visible minority may place such migrant communities at additional risk (Williams and Mohammed 2009 ). Thus, the health status of the migrant population may be improved or disadvantaged relative to their counterfactual...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2243–2263.
Published: 01 December 2021
... is always cleaner on the other side: Race, space, and ambient air toxics exposures in California . Journal of Urban Affairs , 27 , 127 – 148 . Pastor M. , Sadd J. , & Hipp J. R. ( 2001 ). Which came first? Toxic facilities, minority move-in, and environmental justice...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 645–671.
Published: 08 January 2014
... families, have attended Swedish schools, and are part of native social networks perform significantly worse in the labor market than natives. Other studies confirm that visible minorities from the GS face significant difficulties in the Swedish labor market (Attström 2007 ; Hedberg and Tammaru 2013...
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 365–380.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., and for racial and ethnic minorities more recently, manufacturing employment was a ladder into the middle classes. This point is illustrated clearly in Figure 1, which shows the 1990 family earnings distribution, by quintile, of work- ers in six industrial sectors. More than 50% of manufactur- ing workers...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 461–466.
Published: 01 November 2000
... we find that RCRA-governed facilities are more likely to be sited in working-class neighborhoods with lower percentages of minority residents. We do not find evidence of stark environmental inequities. RCRA facilities, however, are close to neighborhoods with a higher percentage of minority residents...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 295–318.
Published: 18 December 2017
.... 2017 ). However, we can also give a complementary explanation for the relatively minor contribution of parental SEP to the visible arm of childhood. The compression of parental characteristics into only three educational categories and much less variation in occupational class positions in the parental...
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 505–519.
Published: 01 November 1999
... each woman's time since the last live birth (u*) into a truncated, births-last-year form: B( u ) = {I if u· s I year ootherwise ' where B approximates the number of births in the past year. (The possibility of multiple births makes B a slight under- count of births, but this is a minor problem...
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 258–263.
Published: 01 March 1964
... is true for re- search on demographic aspects of eco- nomic development, the theory of cohort mortality, the relation of population to natural resources and conservation, the international demography of minority lin- guistic groups, and the study of noncon- traceptive methods of fertility control, to give...
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Demography (1975) 12 (4): 671–678.
Published: 01 November 1975
... 4 November 1975 (Editorial Note: The invited contributions to the Review Symposium have been presented as submitted, with only minor editorial changes.) POPULATION POLICY IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES Bernard Berelson (ed.) New York: McGraw-Hili, lnc., 1974, xiii, 793 pp., Hardbound, $17.50 reviewed...
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