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This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of traditional elderly support structures, where sons live...
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opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …
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- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …
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The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since …. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their …
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This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants...
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This paper deals with the economic performance of various population groups in Germany giving special attention to ethnic origin of immigrants as compared to the native born German population. In addition, winners and losers of the re-distribution process, induced by the tax and social security...
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-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two groups decreased in the 1980’s. Given the high self-employment rates of this …-skilled natives are more likely to be self-employed than high-skilled immigrants. Models of the self-employment decision, controlling …, national origin and ethnicity, are estimated. Evidence of positive enclave effects on self-employment probabilities is found …
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Since the mid-1960’s the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey … and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which …
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analysis suggests significant differences in the probability of downward occupational mobility by gender, immigration status … market position at the time of immigration, but are also able to reach their original occupational status much faster than …
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Since the mid 1960s the Netherlands has an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and … Morocco and because of immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrant workers have a weak labour market …
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