Marriage Migration: Just another case of positive assortative matching?

It is a stylized fact that marriage formation generally involves positive assortative matching <p> (PAM) on education. We test whether this is also the case for immigrants who tend to import <p> their spouses and potentially use education as an exchange mechanism. We find that only <p> women match positively on education. For Turks the results robustly confirm PAM, whereas <p> for Pakistanis there is no evidence of PAM. For men there is local support to the exchange <p> hypothesis, since cultural assimilation or conflicts with parents, through less spouse import, <p> increase the likelihood of marrying a highly educated spouse.