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Immigration, Welfare Magnets and the Geography of Child Poverty in the United States
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-09)
This study presents a detailed look at the immigration and internal migration dynamics of child poverty for US States based on the 1990 US census. It assesses the impact of two policy-relevant factors on the migration of ...
Interstate migration of the US poverty population: Immigration “pushes” and welfare magnet “pulls”
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-07)
This study evaluates the social and demographic structure of poverty migration during the 1985–90 period based on an analysis of recent census data. Particular attention is given to the roles of two policy-relevant factors ...
Immigration and internal migration “flight”: A California case study
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-03)
Recent analyses of 1990 census migration data have pointed up disparities in the way immigration and internal migration contributions affect an area's demographic profile. They show that there is little overlap between ...
The stochastic SI model with recruitment and deaths I. comparison with the closed SIS model
(Elsevier, 1993)
We compare the stochastic and deterministic version of an SI model with recuitment, background deaths, and deaths due to the disease. For the stochastic version, analysis of the mean number of susceptibles, m, and infecteds, ...
Women and sustainable development, a reflection
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-11)
Family organization and the wage labor transition in a Tamang community of Nepal
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-09)
This paper explores familial contexts of transition to a wage labor economy using ethnographic and survey data from Tamang communities at the northern edge of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. Historically agro-pastoralist, the ...
The Impact of Community Context on Land Use in an Agricultural Society
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-01)
As an initial step toward new models of the population-environment relationship, this paper explores the relationship between community context and local land use in an agricultural setting. In this type of setting, we ...