Immigrant Examination Behavior

Breast self-examination among Chinese immigrant women.

The incidence of breast cancer is rising rapidly among the fast-growing demographic group of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). In this study, the authors assessed the awareness of breast self-exam (BSE) and factors predicting practice of BSE among Chinese immigrant women living in San Francisco. Three hundred and ninety-seven women participated in a telephone survey; 80.9% reported ...

Understanding Immigrant Behavior in Denmark: The Immigrant Enclave and Employment Rate Paradox

The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior

The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996...

an examination of undergraduate student citation behavior

purpose: aiming at the examination of undergraduate student citation behavior, this essay studied the effect of class year, academic discipline and the students' course level components upon the citation behavior and the numbers and the type of citation, as well. methodology: this research conducted in bucknell university in 2002. it was done in field study using 583 bibliography referred ...

Examination of Performance Appraisal Behavior Structure

The personality (dispositional) characteristics, attitudes, beliefs, and orientation of 498 managers and military officers toward performance appraisal and organization were collected in order to examine their structural relationships to raters' behavior, in terms of (a) mean appraisal ratings, (b) measures of performance dimensions discrimination, and (c) rate discrimination. A mapping sentenc...