Guillermina Jasso
Research Fellow
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Guillermina Jasso is Silver Professor and Professor of Sociology at New York University. She was the founding director of the Methods Workshop at New York University (1991-1997) and the founding director of the Theory Workshop at the University of Iowa (1988-1991), as well as a co-founder of the Life Course Center at the University of Minnesota. She served as Special Assistant to the Director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1977-1979) and as Director of Research for the U.S. Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy (1979-1980). Professor Jasso’s major research interests are basic sociobehavioral theory, distributive justice, status, international migration, inequality, probability distributions, mathematical methods for theory building, and factorial survey methods for empirical analysis. She has published numerous articles in scholarly journals on these topics. Currently she is a Principal Investigator of the New Immigrant Survey, the first national longitudinal survey of immigrants in the United States. Professor Jasso was elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars and to the Sociological Research Association, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1999-2000), is a Research Associate at the Center for Public Policy at the University of Houston, and is also a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. Professor Jasso has served on many advisory boards, including panels advising the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of DIW Berlin, the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations, and the Board of Directors of DIW DC. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Panel on the Demographic and Economic Consequences of Immigration, the Core Research Group of the Binational Study of Migration Between Mexico and the United States, and the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Redesign of the U.S. Naturalization Test. She has served as Deputy Editor of American Sociological Review. She has also served as Chair of four Sections of the American Sociological Association, the Theory Section, the Rationality and Society Section, the International Migration Section, and the Social Psychology Section, and was recently elected Chair of the ASA Methodology Section and President of the Research Committee on Social Psychology of the International Sociological Association. Professor Jasso received a Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 1974. She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2004. |
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Linking Individuals and Societies (published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2010, 34 (1), 1-51 ) |
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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States (published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 26-42) |
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A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality (published in: Rationality and Society, 2009, 21 (1), 113-168) |
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Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration (published in: Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon H. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Migration Today: Phenomenon, Prospects, Problems, Policies. New York: Oxford, 2009) |
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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model (published in: Advances in Group Processes, 2008, 25, 327-343) |
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From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States (published in: International Migration Review, 2008, 42 (4), 803-843) |
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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces (published in: European Sociological Review, 2008, 24 (4), 411-434) |
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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation (published in: Acta Sociologica, 2008, 51 (2), 123-143) |
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The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes (published in: Andreas Diekmann, Klaus Eichner, Peter Schmidt, and Thomas Voss (eds.), Rational Choice: Theoretische Analyse und Empirische Resultate. Festschrift für Karl-Dieter Opp. Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag, 2008) |
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Two Types of Inequality: Inequality Between Persons and Inequality Between Subgroups (published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2008, 37 (1), 31-74) |
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Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond (published in: Social Justice Research, 2007, 20(3), 336-371) |
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A New Continuous Distribution and Two New Families of Distributions Based on the Exponential (published in: Statistica Neerlandica, 2007, 61(3), 305-328) |
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Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward (published in: Kjell Törnblom and Riel Vermunt (eds.), Distributive and Procedural Justice: Research and Social Applications. London, UK: Ashgate, 2007) |
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