Does immigration generate jobs in an MSA, or do employment opportunities entice immigrant inflows to an MSA? Is immigration responsible for higher unemployment, or do foreign-born inflows cause increases in self-employment that lead to improvement in labor market conditions? The causal relationship between immigrants, job growth and unemployment is a politically and economically salient subject...

“The preparation of essentially descriptive accounts of immigration into particular countries, together with indications of the supposed effects produced by this immigration, entails little difficulty. Much difficulty, however, besets attempts to isolate and evaluate with precision specific effects, economic and otherwise, produced in countries of immigration by foreign-born individuals who cam...

Alternative theoretical perspectives have been presented to explain internationally effective factors affecting immigration. For example, the orthodox explanation of migration is based on the concept of wage differentials as an important factor of international immigration. The world system approach declines to interpret theoretically international migration as a phenomenon between independent ...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate all-cause and cause-specific mortality among ethnic German migrants from the former Soviet Union by different immigration periods to describe associations with migration pattern and mortality. DESIGN We used pooled data from three retrospective cohort studies in Germany. PARTICIPANTS Ethnic German migrants from the former Soviet Union (called resettlers), w...

Abstract COVID-19 exacerbated the “epidemic of loneliness.” Although loneliness and social isolation are determinants health Alzheimer’s dementia (AD), culturally linguistically responsive connection interventions tailored to Spanish-Speaking community-dwelling immigrant older adults at higher risk AD lacking. UCLA’s Hispanic Neuropsychiatric Center Excellence (HNCE) collaborated with Los Angel...

T his study investigated the effect of international labor migration on Iran’s economy using a neo-classical growth model with the assumption of labor heterogeneity within the framework of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. After solving the model, the obtained equations were linearized and different values were assigned to the parameters according to Iran’s economy inform...

We investigate the importance of citizens’ opinions about economic impacts of immigration in their countries to their preferences for immigration restriction. We focus on personal views regarding how immigrants would affect the national labour market and the domestic public finance. Our analysis of survey data from 7 EU countries during the period 2002-2003 suggests that personal opinions about...

Spanish heritage speakers in the United States are a reflection of everchanging linguistic and sociolinguistic pressures that result myriad varieties across generations. This paper provides preliminary historical framework to fill this gap knowledge Spanish-speaking community Las Vegas, Nevada. The goals were two-fold: (1) highlight largest communities Vegas (2) explore significance East Side h...