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This paper examines the effect of education on intermarriage and specifically, whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation and race. We consider three main paths through which education …
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immigrant employment rates. We show that even when controlling for a variety of human capital and assimilation measures … variation in marriage market conditions suggests that the relationship between marriage decisions and employment rates is not …
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positive association. However, in contrast to those who completed their education pre-immigration, immigrants who arrived at a …
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particular at the marriage market. There are also non-trivial effects on employment, but a more limited impact on education and …
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We use sibling variation in age at migration to study how early life exposure to the host country affects social integration in adulthood. Building on a Swedish population-wide dataset, we show that early experiences affect the probability of living close to, working with, and marrying other...
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migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated … unlikely that internal mobility moderates any potential impacts of immigration on labour or housing markets in New Zealand. …
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In the past 25 years immigration has re-emerged as a driving force in the size and composition of U.S. cities. This … paper describes the effects of immigration on overall population growth and the skill composition of cities, focusing on the …, these offsetting flows are small, so most cities with higher rates of immigration have experienced overall population growth …
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explain why economic analyses commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less …-educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might …
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inflows can therefore be seen as a natural experiment of immigration, avoiding the typical endogeneity problem of immigrant …-specific employment and wage rates of the resident population in different geographical areas between 1996 and 2001. The variation I …
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wages and employment of younger and lesseducated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes … immigration. An IV strategy, which deals with the endogeneity of immigration by exploiting a large influx of Central American … educated native men. Yet, ignoring the flows of native and earlier immigrants in response to this exogeneous immigration is …
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