This study investigates the role of immigrant composition in creating the observed negative correlation between immigrant supply and immigrant wages in US time series, which has recently been interpreted as evidence of immigrant-native complementarities in production. The main finding is that compositional effects fully explain this empirical pattern. Newlyarrived immigrants, notably Latin Amer...

Immigrant cohorts have varied over time in many ways that have important implications for projecting the contributions immigrants make to the Social Security system. Using immigrant cohorts in the 1970, 1980, and 1990 decennial censuses, we find that immigrant men experience faster earnings growth than U.S.-born men; that there has been a large decline in initial immigrant earnings over time; a...

background: traditional thai tobacco (nicotiana abacus l.) is known as a non-virginia type whose mature leaf contains three to four times more nicotine than that of a virginia type. as such, the process of thai traditional tobacco production may lead to adverse health effects such as green tobacco sickness (gts). objective: to investigate the prevalence of gts and risk factors related to gts am...

Although earlier research on leader-member exchange (LMX) theory supported a negative linear relationship between LMX quality and role stressors, recent studies suggest that a more complex, nonlinear relationship may exist between LMX quality and variables traditionally associated with it. Based on communication research of LMX and social exchange theory, the aim of this article is to revisit t...

BACKGROUND Understanding immigrant women's experiences of maternity care is critical if receiving country care systems are to respond appropriately to increasing global migration. This systematic review aimed to compare what we know about immigrant and non-immigrant women's experiences of maternity care. METHODS Medline, CINAHL, Health Star, Embase and PsychInfo were searched for the period 1...

BACKGROUND This article introduces some key labor, economic, and social policies that historically and currently impact occupational health disparities in the United States. METHODS We conducted a broad review of the peer-reviewed and gray literature on the effects of social, economic, and labor policies on occupational health disparities. RESULTS Many populations such as tipped workers, pu...

This paper focuses on the design and implementation of Organisational Ubiquitous Information Systems for Digital Native and Digital Immigrant users. Organisational Ubiquitous Information Systems refer to information systems available through many devices such as smart phones that are used by employees of an organisation anytime and anywhere to achieve specific work related goal(s). A multi-meth...

Immigrants in the destination society are always exposed to various challenges in cultural and social fields in order to be accepted, and for these reasons, they must adapt themselves to the forced effects in the immigrant-receiving societies. In this article, by choosing the Afghan immigrant community, It has been devoted to the sociological study of the cultural and social impact of Afghan im...

We examine the official scope and actual coverage of immigrant civil society in seven California cities using a widely employed 501(c)3 database. First, we code immigrant organizations in official data and compare their number and proportion with population statistics; we find substantially fewer immigrant organizations than we would expect. Second, we measure the organizational undercount of i...