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During the 1980s, the largest and most diverse group of immigrants arrived in the United States since the beginning of the century. This report focuses on arguably the most important of the institutions impacted by this immigration: the schools.
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During the 1980s, more immigrants entered the United States than at any time since the early 1900s. explores how schools and communities have responded to this challenge.
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This paper briefly (1) reviews three radical changes since the 1960s involving increases in immigration in general, shifts in the immigrants' ethnic composition, and increases in undocumented immigration in particular; (2) assesses the effectiveness ...
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This report examines several data series to test whether the employer sanctions mandated by the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 have reduced the flow of undocumented immigrants to the United States. Specifically, the authors use app...
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In 1986, Congress enacted the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which for the first time makes it illegal for employers to hire undocumented immigrants. This provision is counterbalanced by a legislative ban on discrimination in employment o...
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This report considers whether the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) has succeeded in reducing illegal immigration.
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Explores the broad topic of how the selective character of human migration and changing family circumstances may shape the intensity of local need among the future elderly.
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A period of large-scale immigration began in the early 1970s and culminated in passage of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). This report provides the context within which the effects of IRCA can be evaluated.
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This Note provides a bibliography of reports, journal articles, periodicals, and statistical sources dealing with Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans.
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Explores the premise that particular sequences of migration select particular types of persons, whose decisions to move are colored by a spectrum of motives, personal capabilities, and information sources.
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It explores the relationship between circular migration and one of its possible social consequences: changes in a young child's nutritional status.
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This Note reports on a study of the relationship between migration and fertility in Peninsular Malaysia.
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This Note assesses the ability of common migration measures to detect moves by individuals and families.
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This study investigates whether wives' employment (and the level and stability of their earnings) influences family decisions on long-distance migration, and whether those decisions are related to the concurrent breakup of a marriage.
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This Note discusses alternative techniques for analyzing migration and its determinants and consequences using migration-history and life-history data.
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A discussion of alternative techniques for analyzing migration and its determinants and consequences using migration-history and life-history data from the ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) National Migration Surveys. M...
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A need exists to assess the changing levels and rates of urbanization, the relation of urbanization to the ongoing economic, social, and demographic changes, and the respective roles of migration and fertility in the urbanization process. This paper...
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To estimate the wage gains to migration, migrants' post-migration wages should be compared with what the migrants would have earned had they not moved (their "counterfactual" wages), and not with the wages of apparently similar nonmigrants.
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