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A Bourdieusian perspective on acculturation : Mexican immigrants in the United States
Prieto, Leonel; Sagafi-nejad, Tagi; Janamanchi, Balaji - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 3 (2013) 4, pp. 290-305
This article uses Bourdieu's theory of practice (BTOP) to understand immigrants' acculturation. It synthesizes research findings by discussing acculturation as: (1) equalization of immigrants' and natives' development (convergence); (2) language and social practices related to economic,...
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Mexican immigrants, the labor market and the current population survey : seasonality effects, framing effects, and sensitivity of results
Lozano, Fernando (contributor); Sorensen, Todd (contributor) - 2008
produce seasonality effects that differentially affect the composition of recent and earlier migrants, thereby changing … assimilation profiles. -- Immigration ; March CPS ; CPS outgoing rotations ; hours of work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652678
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Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States
Peri, Giovanni - 2020
Using data from the United States spanning the period between 1970 and 2017, we analyze the economic assimilation of subsequent arrival cohorts of Mexican and Central American immigrants, the more economically disadvantaged group of immigrants. We compare their wage and employment probability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840998
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Empirical Evidence on Labor Profile Competencies of Mexican Immigrants to the United States of America
Herrera Aguado, Azucena Leticia - 2019
The immigration of Mexicans to the United States of America (USA) has led to migration policy problems in both … programs addressing emergencies in labor insertion and reinsertion of Mexican migrants on both sides of the USA-Mexico border …
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Metropolitan Dispersion of Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
Light, Ivan - 2016
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Immigration Policy and the Rise of Self-Employment Among Mexican Immigrants
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2021
. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … characteristic of the U.S. immigration policy during that time span, might have contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314826
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Immigration policy and the rise of self-employment among Mexican immigrants
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2020
. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … characteristic of the U.S. immigration policy during that time span, might have contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372868
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001498
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
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Mexican Immigrants, the Labor Market and the Current Population Survey : Seasonality Effects, Framing Effects, and Sensitivity of Results
Lozano, Fernando A.; Sorensen, Todd - 2021
produce seasonality effects that differentially affect the composition of recent and earlier migrants, thereby changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325162