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Moving towards social inclusion: Manager and staff perspectives on an award winning community sport and recreation program for immigrants

Forde, Shawn D.; Lee, Donna S.; Mills, Cathy; Frisby, Wendy - In: Sport Management Review 18 (2015) 1, pp. 126-138

This case study examined manager and staff perspectives on their local sport and recreation department's role, organizational practices, and challenges faced when developing and sustaining a wellness program for immigrants that received a program excellence award from a provincial recreation...

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Immigrant assimilation into US prisons, 1900–1930

Moehling, Carolyn; Piehl, Anne - In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014) 1, pp. 173-200

The analysis of a new dataset on state prisoners in the 1900 to 1930 censuses reveals that immigrants rapidly assimilated to native incarceration patterns. One feature of these data is that the second generation can be identified, allowing direct analysis of this group and allowing their...

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Familial Effect on Child Poverty in Hong Kong Immigrant Families

Chou, Kee-Lee - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 1, pp. 183-195

This study investigated how family context affect poverty disparities between young children of immigrants from the Mainland China and children of local families whose parents were born in Hong Kong using 2006 bicensus data. 12,609 and 12,753 children of immigrant and local families were...

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How High is Hispanic/Mexican Fertility in the United States? Immigration and Tempo Considerations

Parrado, Emilio - In: Demography 48 (2011) 3, pp. 1059-1080

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Immigrant Assimilation, Canada 1971–2006: Has the Tide Turned?

Campolieti, Michele; Gunderson, Morley; Timofeeva, Olga; … - In: Journal of Labor Research 34 (2013) 4, pp. 455-475

Based on the micro files of the Canadian Census we document an increasing earnings penalty for cohorts of immigrants arriving after the late-1970s, especially for the most recent cohort. We also find much quicker assimilation rates for these cohorts, especially for the most recent cohort. Since...

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Migration in OECD countries: Labour Market Impact and Integration Issues

Jean, Sébastien; Causa, Orsetta; Jimenez, Miguel; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host … to immigration.<P>Les migrations dans les pays de l'OCDE : Impact sur le marché du travail et intégration<BR>Les pays de … marché du travail ont un rôle important à jouer afin de favoriser les ajustements économiques associés à l'immigration. …

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Integration of Immigrants in OECD Countries: Do Policies Matter?

Causa, Orsetta; Jean, Sébastien - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

This working paper assesses the ease of immigrants' integration in OECD labour markets by estimating how an immigration …

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Labor market assimilation of immigrants in Spain: employment at the expense of bad job-matches?

Fernández, Cristina; Ortega, Carolina - In: Spanish Economic Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 83-107

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South American immigrants in the USA: Education levels, tasks performed and the decision to go back home

Medina, Carlos; Posso, Christian - In: Journal of Economic Studies 40 (2013) 2, pp. 255-279

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the main factors influencing the decision of migrants from South … such relationship varies in intensity among migrants from different countries. Research limitations/implications – This … exercise does not take into account migrants in the USA not included in the US Censuses. Practical implications – The results …

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Immigrant economic assimilation: Evidence from UK longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 339-353

Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimate the immigrant–native earnings gap at entry and over time for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and assimilation effects. We also estimate the associated...

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