Nelson Lim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nelson Lim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nelson |
| FAMILY NAME | Lim |
| SIGNATURE | LIM N |
| AFFILIATIONS | RAND Corporation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 388 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Foreign connections and the difference they make
Beyond the economic and social effects of international migration researchers show regular exchanges between immigrants and stay-at-homes produce political spillovers in sending countries. As a broad body of literature demonstrates, most migrants maintain at least some form of contact with key connections back home, whether through long-distance communication, remittance sending, or in person visits. We investigate if exposure to international mi…
Military Systems, Race, and Ethnicity
Relations among racial/ethnic groups in a nation's military reflect that nation's history and larger social context. The military is both influenced by and an influence on civilian society. The contact hypothesis of prejudice reduction provides a framework for understanding the relations among racial and ethnic groups in the military. The US military is generally regarded as a major success story for racial integration; however, countries with di…
Emigrants and the Body Politic Left Behind
There is a duality at the heart of the migration phenomenon, as the very same people who are immigrants are also emigrants, making a living and possibly setting down roots in the receiving society, but still connected to and oriented toward the home society where their significant others often reside. While research has shown that home-country political conditions and experiences affect immigrant political behaviour in the receiving society, scho…
Enforcing Immigration Law at the State and Local Levels
Almost 12 million out-of-status aliens currently reside in the United States. The federal government does not require state and local agencies to carry out specific immigration enforcement actions; however, comprehensive immigration reform may do so in the near future. This paper describes variations in enforcement approaches and making their pros and cons more explicit.
Bad Jobs, Good Jobs, No Jobs? The Employment Experience of the Mexican American Second Generation
Concern with the prospects and experience of the ‘new’ second generation now stands at the top of the immigration research agenda in the United States. In contrast to the past, many immigrant offspring appear to be rapidly heading upward, exemplified by the large number of Chinese, Korean, Indian and other Asian-origin students enrolled in the nation's leading universities, some the children of workers, others the descendants of immigrants who mo…
Toward a Population Health Model of Segmented Assimilation
The authors adapt the segmented assimilation theory to a model of population health, which posits that assimilation is actually harmful to migrants' health. The authors also specify models of individual and contextual factors to indirectly test the theory of segmented assimilation- a theory that posits interactions between individual and residential circumstances. Using Year 2000 vital statistics data merged with 2000 U.S. census data from Los An…
Does it matter who answers the race question? Racial classification and income inequality in Brazil
Previous studies ofracial inequality have relied on official statistics that presumably use self-classification of race. Using novel data from a 1995 national survey in Brazil, we find that the estimates of racial income inequality based on self-classification are lower than those based on interviewer classification. After human capital and labor market controls, whites earn 26% more than browns with interviewer classification but earn only 17% m…
Engineering Labour
Men’s career development and marriage timing during a period of rising inequality
Based on data from 1979–1990 NLSY interviews, we investigate the implications of rising economic inequality for young men’s marriage timing. Our approach is to relate marriage formation to the ease or difficulty of the career-entry process and to show that large race/schooling differences in career development lead to substantial variations in marriage timing. We develop measures of current career “maturity” and of long-term labor-market position…
Who Has Gotten Ahead After the Fall of Communism? The Case of the Czech Republic
Recent political, economic and social developments in East-European countries offer exceptional opportunities to study the effects of profound transfor-mations of political and economic systems on social stratification. However, in con-trast to a vital theoretical debate on political and economic issues of the post-communist transformation, theoretical reflections of changes in inequality and social stratification in post-communist countries have…
Men’s career development and marriage timing during a period of rising inequality
Based on data from 1979–1990 NLSY interviews, we investigate the implications of rising economic inequality for young men’s marriage timing. Our approach is to relate marriage formation to the ease or difficulty of the career-entry process and to show that large race/schooling differences in career development lead to substantial variations in marriage timing. We develop measures of current career “maturity” and of long-term labor-market position…
Does it matter who answers the race question? Racial classification and income inequality in Brazil
Previous studies ofracial inequality have relied on official statistics that presumably use self-classification of race. Using novel data from a 1995 national survey in Brazil, we find that the estimates of racial income inequality based on self-classification are lower than those based on interviewer classification. After human capital and labor market controls, whites earn 26% more than browns with interviewer classification but earn only 17% m…
Emigrants and the Body Politic Left Behind
There is a duality at the heart of the migration phenomenon, as the very same people who are immigrants are also emigrants, making a living and possibly setting down roots in the receiving society, but still connected to and oriented toward the home society where their significant others often reside. While research has shown that home-country political conditions and experiences affect immigrant political behaviour in the receiving society, scho…
Bad Jobs, Good Jobs, No Jobs? The Employment Experience of the Mexican American Second Generation
Concern with the prospects and experience of the ‘new’ second generation now stands at the top of the immigration research agenda in the United States. In contrast to the past, many immigrant offspring appear to be rapidly heading upward, exemplified by the large number of Chinese, Korean, Indian and other Asian-origin students enrolled in the nation's leading universities, some the children of workers, others the descendants of immigrants who mo…
Toward a Population Health Model of Segmented Assimilation
The authors adapt the segmented assimilation theory to a model of population health, which posits that assimilation is actually harmful to migrants' health. The authors also specify models of individual and contextual factors to indirectly test the theory of segmented assimilation- a theory that posits interactions between individual and residential circumstances. Using Year 2000 vital statistics data merged with 2000 U.S. census data from Los An…
Who Has Gotten Ahead After the Fall of Communism? The Case of the Czech Republic
Recent political, economic and social developments in East-European countries offer exceptional opportunities to study the effects of profound transfor-mations of political and economic systems on social stratification. However, in con-trast to a vital theoretical debate on political and economic issues of the post-communist transformation, theoretical reflections of changes in inequality and social stratification in post-communist countries have…
Foreign connections and the difference they make
Beyond the economic and social effects of international migration researchers show regular exchanges between immigrants and stay-at-homes produce political spillovers in sending countries. As a broad body of literature demonstrates, most migrants maintain at least some form of contact with key connections back home, whether through long-distance communication, remittance sending, or in person visits. We investigate if exposure to international mi…
Who Has Gotten Ahead After the Fall of Communism? The Case of the Czech Republic
Recent political, economic and social developments in East-European countries offer exceptional opportunities to study the effects of profound transfor-mations of political and economic systems on social stratification. However, in con-trast to a vital theoretical debate on political and economic issues of the post-communist transformation, theoretical reflections of changes in inequality and social stratification in post-communist countries have…
Engineering Labour
Men’s career development and marriage timing during a period of rising inequality
Based on data from 1979–1990 NLSY interviews, we investigate the implications of rising economic inequality for young men’s marriage timing. Our approach is to relate marriage formation to the ease or difficulty of the career-entry process and to show that large race/schooling differences in career development lead to substantial variations in marriage timing. We develop measures of current career “maturity” and of long-term labor-market position…
Does it matter who answers the race question? Racial classification and income inequality in Brazil
Previous studies ofracial inequality have relied on official statistics that presumably use self-classification of race. Using novel data from a 1995 national survey in Brazil, we find that the estimates of racial income inequality based on self-classification are lower than those based on interviewer classification. After human capital and labor market controls, whites earn 26% more than browns with interviewer classification but earn only 17% m…
Bad Jobs, Good Jobs, No Jobs? The Employment Experience of the Mexican American Second Generation
Concern with the prospects and experience of the ‘new’ second generation now stands at the top of the immigration research agenda in the United States. In contrast to the past, many immigrant offspring appear to be rapidly heading upward, exemplified by the large number of Chinese, Korean, Indian and other Asian-origin students enrolled in the nation's leading universities, some the children of workers, others the descendants of immigrants who mo…
Toward a Population Health Model of Segmented Assimilation
The authors adapt the segmented assimilation theory to a model of population health, which posits that assimilation is actually harmful to migrants' health. The authors also specify models of individual and contextual factors to indirectly test the theory of segmented assimilation- a theory that posits interactions between individual and residential circumstances. Using Year 2000 vital statistics data merged with 2000 U.S. census data from Los An…
Enforcing Immigration Law at the State and Local Levels
Almost 12 million out-of-status aliens currently reside in the United States. The federal government does not require state and local agencies to carry out specific immigration enforcement actions; however, comprehensive immigration reform may do so in the near future. This paper describes variations in enforcement approaches and making their pros and cons more explicit.
Emigrants and the Body Politic Left Behind
There is a duality at the heart of the migration phenomenon, as the very same people who are immigrants are also emigrants, making a living and possibly setting down roots in the receiving society, but still connected to and oriented toward the home society where their significant others often reside. While research has shown that home-country political conditions and experiences affect immigrant political behaviour in the receiving society, scho…
Military Systems, Race, and Ethnicity
Relations among racial/ethnic groups in a nation's military reflect that nation's history and larger social context. The military is both influenced by and an influence on civilian society. The contact hypothesis of prejudice reduction provides a framework for understanding the relations among racial and ethnic groups in the military. The US military is generally regarded as a major success story for racial integration; however, countries with di…
Foreign connections and the difference they make
Beyond the economic and social effects of international migration researchers show regular exchanges between immigrants and stay-at-homes produce political spillovers in sending countries. As a broad body of literature demonstrates, most migrants maintain at least some form of contact with key connections back home, whether through long-distance communication, remittance sending, or in person visits. We investigate if exposure to international mi…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works)