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The New Americans Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 407-412

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From page 407...
... He is currently co-principal investigator for a pilot project for a new, cost-effective survey that yields adequate sample size of the foreign-born, has known sampling properties, permits longitudinal analyses, and can answer policy questions of particular relevance to immigration. He is a member of the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and is the public representative appointed by the governor on the California OSHA Board.
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From page 408...
... He is a member of the academic advisory board for the new immigrant survey at RAND and of the Social Science Research Council's postdoctoral awards committee for the program on international migration; he served on the National Research Council's Panel to Evaluate Microsimulation Models for Social Welfare Programs. His research interests include patterns of undocumented migration to the United States, the fiscal impacts of new immigrants, and attitudes toward U.S.
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From page 409...
... He is currently serving as faculty co-chair of the Harvard University trade union program. He is program director of the National Bureau of Economic Research' s program in labor studies and executive director of the programme in discontinuous economics at the London School of Economics, a major program in economic analysis using neural nets and new data mining tools.
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From page 410...
... and Managing the Service Economy. He has been a visiting professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University and a research fellow at Harvard University, the Australian National University, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
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From page 411...
... She has been a consultant to the Census Bureau on issues of measurement of race and ethnicity and is a member of the review panel of the social sciences and population section of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and is a member of the international immigration committee of the Social Science Research Council.
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  • founding director
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  • urban institute
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  • labor market
  • merit award
  • sage foundation
  • population association
  • scholarly journals

  • ascherman chair
  • ethnic stratification
  • youth labor
  • income dynamics
  • london school

  • fiscal policy
  • firm behavior
  • public finance
  • technical change
  • international immigration

  • rand chair
  • using neural
  • sociological association
  • racial intermarriage
  • neural nets


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