Immigrant-native health disparities in adolescence: the role of exogamous families in Finland

Immigrants’ health tends to deteriorate over successive generations, a phenomenon known as “negative health assimilation”. Less is known about what happens to adolescents with one immigrant and one native parent. … Read more

Selecting highly educated immigrants may not significantly raise the average education of the U.S. labor force

In the U.S., adopting a Canadian‐style admissions policy, i.e., explicitly selecting immigrants based on educational attainment,would not significantly improve the educational level of the labor force, and the (unlikely) elimination … Read more

The significance of age to the study of ethnic residential segregation

In the study of ethnic residential segregation, global measures are typically used. However, while useful as summary indicators, these measures miss important and distinctive age-specific and birth-cohort trends. Albert Sabater and … Read more

Are U.S. whites ‘hunkering down’ in racially-diverse cities and neighborhoods?

America’s new racial diversity has upended conventional empirical approaches to residential segregation based on simple binary notions of the color line: white–black, white–nonwhite, or black–nonblack.Multiculturalism, pluralism, and racial hierarchy are … Read more