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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States

Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...

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There Goes the Neighborhood? People’s Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia

Sinning, Mathias; Vorell, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about these effects using individual and regional data for Australia. We employ an instrumental variables strategy to account for non-random location choices of immigrants and find...

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Inter-ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction

Sinning, Mathias; Worner, Shane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper investigates immigrant assortative mating and relationship satisfaction. Using a modified random effects ordered probit model, the paper demonstrates that spouses of mixed couples are significantly less satisfied with their partner than native-only and foreign-only couples.

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Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...

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Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...

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Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Bauer, Thomas; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...

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Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap

Kassenböhmer, Sonja; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed characteristics measuring individual productivity. We find that the … gender wage gap narrowed by more than 13 percent at the lowest decile and by less than 4 percent at the highest decile. The … decomposition results indicate that changes in the gender wage gap are mainly attributable to changes in educational attainment at …

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