Assortative Mating among Married New Legal Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermina Jasso ◽  
Douglas S. Massey ◽  
Mark R. Rosenzweig ◽  
James P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Immigrants ◽  
New Immigrant

Assortative Mating among Married New Legal Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermina Jasso ◽  
Douglas S. Massey ◽  
Mark R. Rosenzweig ◽  
James P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Immigrants ◽  
New Immigrant

Colorism Against Legal Immigrants to the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (14) ◽  
pp. 2117-2132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joni Hersch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Analysis ◽  
Additional Time ◽  
Legal Immigrants ◽  
The U.S ◽  
New Immigrant

Data from the 2003 wave of the New Immigrant Survey established that immigrants to the United States with darker skin color experienced a substantial pay penalty that is not explained by extensive individual and job characteristics. These same immigrants were reinterviewed approximately 4 years later. With additional time to assimilate to the U.S. labor market, the disadvantage of darker skin color may have declined or even disappeared. The current analysis shows that the penalty for darker color instead increased over this period from a 16% lightest-to-darkest penalty to a 25% disparity.

scholarly journals Where Are You From? Assortative Mating by Place of Origin in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAO-CHUN CHENG
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Marriage Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
And Gender

Previous studies showed that assortative mating occurred based on different social dimensions, such as age, education, and race or ethnicity. However, these studies ignored the potential impact of place of origin on people’s place identity and habitus and their associations with assortative mating in the United States. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), in conjunction with the Current Population Survey (CPS), this study finds a clear pattern of assortative mating based on place of origin. Moreover, the results suggest that there are regional differences in assortative mating by place of origin, especially for women. Also, the length of residence shapes people’s habitus and thus the pattern of homogeneous matching by place of origin. The significant effects of race or ethnicity and the conditions of the marriage market before marriage vary by scale of place and gender. These findings suggest that place of origin is another dimension of assortative mating.

scholarly journals Contributions of Immigrant Farmworkers to California Vegetable Production

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 879-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Devadoss ◽  
Jeff Luckstead
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Immigrant Worker ◽  
Job Competition ◽  
New Immigrant

A major concern with immigrants coming into the United States is that they adversely affect domestic workers through job competition and wage depression. We study the displacement and wage reduction effects of immigrants in California vegetable production, which is labor intensive, and 95% of the farmworkers in California are immigrants. Our findings show that this concern is not valid in vegetable production because the addition of one new immigrant displaces only 0.0123 domestic workers, and wage reduction is inconsequential. But one immigrant worker increases the vegetable production by $23,457 and augments the productivity of skilled workers, material inputs, and capital by $11,729.

scholarly journals Human rights and immigrants’ access to care

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Parmet ◽  
Simon Fischer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
International Law ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Public Insurance ◽  
Legal Immigrants

Although the human right to health is well established under international law, many states limit non-citizens’ participation in public insurance programs. In the United States, immigrants face especially high barriers due to the lack of recognition of a broad right to health as well as federal statutes restricting many immigrants’ eligibility to federally-funded insurance. High rates of uninsurance among immigrants have a detrimental effect on their health, as well as on the health of citizens who live in their communities. Finch vs. Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector, a recent case decided by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, recognized the rights of legal immigrants in Massachusetts to state-supported health care, and demonstrates the importance of insuring immigrants in broadly-based, rather than immigrant-specific, programs.

scholarly journals Genomic Assortative Mating in Marriages in the United States

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e112322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Guo ◽  
Lin Wang ◽  
Hexuan Liu ◽  
Thomas Randall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
The United States
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