NIS - The New Immigrant Survey - Papers & Publications

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Papers & Publications:

Akresh, I.R. 2006. "Occupational Mobility among Legal Immigrants to the United States." International Migration Review, 40(4).

Akresh, I.R. 2007a. "Contexts of English Language Use among Immigrants to the United States." International Migration Review, 41(4): 930-955.

Akresh, I.R. 2007b. "Dietary Assimilation and Health among Hispanic Immigrants to the United States." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 48(4): 404-417.

Akresh, I.R. 2007c. "U.S. Immigrants’ Labor Market Adjustment: Additional Human Capital Investment and Earnings Growth." Demography, 44(4): 865-881.

Akresh, I.R., and R. Frank. 2008. "Health Selection among New Immigrants." American Journal of Public Health, 98(4). Available on AJPH.

Cadge, W., and E. Ecklund. 2006. "Religious Services Attendance among Immigrants: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey - Pilot." Pp. 1-22 in American Behavioral Scientist. Vol 49 Number 11. Sage Publications.

Hersch, J. 2008. "Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height. " Journal of Labor Economics 26:2, 345-386.

Jasso, G. 2008. "New Immigrant Survey." Pp. 499-500 in W. A. Darity Jr. (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Second Edition, Volume 5. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.

Jasso, G., D.S. Massey, M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. 2000a. "Assortative Mating among Married New Legal Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot." International Migration Review 34:443-459. Available on JSTOR.

Jasso, G., D.S. Massey, M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. 2000b. "Family, Schooling, Religiosity, and Mobility Among New Legal Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot Study." Pp. 52-81 in L. F.Tomasi and M. G. Powers (eds.), Immigration Today: Pastoral and Research Challenges. Staten Island, New York: Center for Migration Studies.

Jasso, G., D.S. Massey, M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. 2000c. "The New Immigrant Survey Pilot (NIS-P): Overview and New Findings About U.S. Legal Immigrants at Admission." Demography, 37:127-138. Available on JSTOR.

Jasso, G., D.S. Massey, M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. 2003a. "Exploring the Religious Preferences of Recent Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot." Pp. 217-253 in Y. Y. Haddad, J. I. Smith, J. L. Esposito (eds.), Religion and Immigration: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Information on book.

Jasso, G., D.S. Massey, M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. 2003b. "The New Immigrant Survey in the US: The Experience over Time." Migration Information Source: www.migrationinformation.org

Jasso, G., D.S. Massey, M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. 2004. "Immigrant Health-Selectivity and Acculturation. " Pp. 227-266 in N. B. Anderson, R. A. Bulatao, and B. Cohen (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Jasso, G., D.S. Massey, M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. 2005 "Immigration, Health, and New York City: Early Results Based on the New Immigrant Cohort of 2003." Economic Policy Review 11:127-151.

Jasso, G., D.S. Massey, M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. In press a. "From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States." International Migration Review 42:. Manuscript available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 3441 at www.iza.org.

Jasso, G., D.S. Massey, M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. In press b. "The U.S. New Immigrant Survey: Overview and Preliminary Results Based on the New-Immigrant Cohorts of 1996 and 2003." Pp. 29-46 in B. Morgan and B. Nicholson (eds.), Immigration Research and Statistics Service Workshop on Longitudinal Surveys and Cross-Cultural Survey Design: Workshop Proceedings. London, UK: Crown Publishing.

Jasso, G., and M.R. Rosenzweig. 2006. "Characteristics of Immigrants to the United States: 1820-2003." Pp. 328-358 in R. Ueda (ed.), Companion to American Immigration. A volume in the series, Blackwell Companions to American History. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Jasso, G., M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. 1999. "The Effects of Interview Payments and Periodicity on Sample Selection and Attrition and Respondent Memory: Evidence from the Pilot Study of the New Immigrant Survey."

Jasso, G., M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. 2000. "The Changing Skill of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants." Pp. 185-225 in G.J. Borjas (ed.), Issues in the Economics of Immigration. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Jasso, G., M.R. Rosenzweig, and J.P. Smith. 2002. "The Earnings of U.S. Immigrants: World Skill Prices, Skill Transferability and Selectivity."

Massey, D.S., and I.R. Akresh. 2006. "Immigrant Intentions and Mobility in a Global Economy: The Attitudes and Behavior of Recently Arrived Immigrants." Social Science Quarterly,Volume 87, Number 5, pp. 954-971(18).

Massey, D.S., and N. Malone. 2002. "Pathways to Legal Immigration." Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 21, No. 6.

McConnell, E.D., and I.R. Akresh. 2008. "Through the Front Door: Housing Outcomes of New Lawful Immigrants." International Migration Review, 2(1): 134-163.

Redstone, I., and D.S. Massey. 2004. "Coming to Stay: An Analysis of the U.S. Census Question on Immigrants’ Year of Arrival." Demography, 41:721-738.

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