Unauthorized Mexican Workers in the 1990 Los Angeles County Labour Force

Marcelli, Enrico A.; Heer, David M.

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“…Others have used survey-based statistical imputation to assign unauthorized status (Caponi and Plesca 2014; Capps et al 2013; Heer and Passel 1987; Marcelli and Heer 1997, 1998). Statistical imputations use the associations between a set of predictors and unauthorized status from a survey that includes questions about immigrants’ legal status (the donor sample) to assign legal status to foreign-born respondents in surveys lacking such measures (the target sample).…”

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“…Faced with these data limitations, researchers have developed logical, demographic, and statistically based strategies for imputing the legal status of immigrants in the aforementioned nationally representative surveys (e.g., Batalova et al 2014; Heer and Passel 1987; Marcelli 2004; Marcelli and Heer 1997, 1998; Passel and Cohn 2009; State Health Access Data Assistance Center 2013). At present, such methods are the only means through which much-needed avenues of research on legal status can be opened.…”

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Can We Spin Straw Into Gold? An Evaluation of Immigrant Legal Status Imputation Approaches

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Researchers have developed logical, demographic, and statistical strategies for imputing immigrants’ legal status, but these methods have never been empirically assessed. We used Monte Carlo simulations to test whether, and under what conditions, legal status imputation approaches yield unbiased estimates of the association of unauthorized status with health insurance coverage. We tested five methods under a range of missing data scenarios. Logical and demographic imputation methods yielded biased estimates across all missing data scenarios. Statistical imputation approaches yielded unbiased estimates only when unauthorized status was jointly observed with insurance coverage; when this condition was not met, these methods overestimated insurance coverage for unauthorized relative to legal immigrants. We next showed how bias can be reduced by incorporating prior information about unauthorized immigrants. Finally, we demonstrated the utility of the best-performing statistical method for increasing power. We used it to produce state/regional estimates of insurance coverage among unauthorized immigrants in the Current Population Survey, a data source that contains no direct measures of immigrants’ legal status. We conclude that commonly employed legal status imputation approaches are likely to produce biased estimates, but data and statistical methods exist that could substantially reduce these biases.

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“…Finally, unauthorized is dichotomous and set equal to "1" if the subject is estimated to have been unauthorized to reside in the USA using the survey-based legal status estimation methodology pioneered in the 1990s by Marcelli and Heer. 45 Health Status and Behavior Lastly, we control for selected health risks and behaviors that may correspond with smoking. Cardiovascular disease risk is a dichotomous measure set equal to "1" if the subject has ever been diagnosed with high cholesterol or hypertension.…”

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Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Smoking among Legal and Unauthorized Brazilian Migrants in Metropolitan Boston

Holmes

Marcelli

2014

J Urban Health

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Tobacco smoking is estimated to be the largest preventable cause of mortality in the USA, but little is known about the relationship between neighborhood social environment and current smoking behavior or how this may differ by population and geography. We investigate how neighborhood social cohesion and disorder are associated with smoking behavior among legal and unauthorized Brazilian migrant adults using data from the 2007 Harvard-UMASS Boston Metropolitan Immigrant Health and Legal Status Survey (BM-IHLSS), a probabilistic household survey of adult Brazilian migrants. We employ logistic regression to estimate associations between neighborhood social cohesion, neighborhood disorder, and current smoking. We find that neighborhood-level social cohesion is associated with lower likelihood of being a current smoker (O.R.=.836; pG.05), and neighborhood disorder, measured as crime experienced in the neighborhood, is not associated with current smoking. Neighborhood population density, age, being male, and residing with someone who smokes are each positively associated with current smoking (pG.10). The health of participants' parents at the age of 35, being married, and individual earnings are associated with a reduction in the probability of being a current smoker (pG.05). Migrant legal status and length of residence in the USA are not associated with current smoking. Our findings suggest that neighborhood social cohesion may be protective against smoking. Alternatively, neighborhood disorder does not appear to be related to current smoking among Brazilian migrants.

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“…As a result, the Jack of conventional participation among minority populations is attributed to their lower sense of political efficacy and/or their lack of resources relative to non-minorities. Latinos are therefore expected to be less involved in conventional activities because they tend to possess fewer resources relative to non-Latinos (Marcelli and Heer 1997;Perez and De La Rosa-Salazar 1993;Valenzuela and Gonzalez 2000).…”

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Yes We Can: Latino Participation in Unconventional Politics

Martinez

2005

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This paper considers participation in unconventional politics and its determinants. In particular, analyses presented below focus on differences in low-risk protest activity among non-Latinos and Latinos of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban origin. Central to this analysis is an examination of individual and network determinants of unconventional participation as well as determinants unique to immigrant populations: citizenship and generation. Ifind that, contrary to theoretical predictions, Latinos are less likely to protest relative to non-Latinos. There are also significant differences in participation by ethnicity: Latinos of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent are more likely to protest than their Cuban counterparts. Citizenship and generational status also influence the likelihood of political involvement suggesting these are factors that not only shape conventional political behavior but unconventional participation.

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Unauthorized Mexican Workers in the 1990 Los Angeles County Labour Force

Cited by 35 publications

References 8 publications

Can We Spin Straw Into Gold? An Evaluation of Immigrant Legal Status Imputation Approaches

Can We Spin Straw Into Gold? An Evaluation of Immigrant Legal Status Imputation Approaches

Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Smoking among Legal and Unauthorized Brazilian Migrants in Metropolitan Boston

Yes We Can: Latino Participation in Unconventional Politics

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