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Immigrant Adaptation and Assimilation

"California's Immigrants Turn the Corner" -- reporting first major change in trends since 1970 Link external links

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Relevant Reports and Publications

"Accuracy of Data Collected by the Census Question on Immigrants' Year of Arrival," Working Paper No PDRG04-01. PDF file

Dowell Myers, "Upward Mobility in Space and Time:  Lessons from Immigration,” pp. 135-57 in James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca, eds., America’s Demographic Tapestry, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. PDF file

Dowell Myers, "The Economic Adaptation of Mexican-Origin Men,” with Commentary by Nathan Glazer, pp. 159-203 in Marcelo M. Suarez-Orosco, ed., Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Harvard University Press, 1998.

Dowell Myers and Seong Woo Lee, Immigrant Trajectories into Homeownership: A Temporal Analysis of Residential Assimilation? International Migration Review 32 (Fall 1998): 593-625. PDF file

Dowell Myers and Cynthia Cranford, "Temporal Differentiation in the Occupational Mobility of Immigrant and Native-Born Latino Workers,” American Sociological Review 63 (February 1998): 68-93. PDF file

Dowell Myers and Seong Woo Lee, "Immigration Cohorts and Residential Overcrowding in Southern California," Demography 33 (February 1996): 51-65. PDF file

    Dowell Myers, Cynthia Cranford, Julie Park, Sarah Imber, and Lee Menifee, "Upward Mobility Through Los Angeles: Trajectories of Location and Poverty, 1980 to 2020," Research Report No. LCRI-97-01R, Lusk Center Research Institute, School of Urban Planning and Development, University of Southern California, 1997. Executive Summary

    Dowell Myers, Immigration: Past and Future Lusk Center Research Institute, School of Urban Planning and Development, University of Southern California, 1996 new window

    Dowell Myers, Maria Yen, and Lonnie Vidaurri, "Transportation, Housing, and Urban Planning Implications of Immigration to Southern California," Research Report No. LCRI-96-04R, Lusk Center Research Institute, School of Urban Planning and Development, University of Southern California, 1996.

    Dowell Myers, William C. Baer and Seong-Youn Choi, "The Changing Problem of Overcrowded Housing," Journal of the American Planning Association (Winter 1996): 66-84. PDF file

    Dowell Myers, "The Changing Immigrants of Southern California," Research Report No. LCRI-95-04R, Lusk Center Research Institute, School of Urban Planning and Development, University of Southern California, 1995.

Longitudinal Models of Aggregate Development

Relevant Reports and Publications

Dowell Myers and Lonnie Vidaurri, "Real Demographics of Housing Demand in the United States," The Lusk Review (Summer 1996):55-61.

Dowell Myers and Seong Woo Lee, "Immigration Cohorts and Residential Overcrowding in Southern California," Demography 33 (February 1996): 51-65. PDF file

John R. Pitkin and Dowell Myers, "The Specification of Demographic Effects on Housing Demand: Avoiding the Age-Cohort Fallacy," Journal of Housing Economics 3 (September 1994): 240-250.

University of Southern California 
School of Policy, Planning, and Development 
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626 
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email: dowell@rcf.usc.edu