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in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …
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This paper investigates Dutch immigrants’ naturalisation decision and how naturalisation affects their employment …
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This is a draft chapter for the Handbook on Economics of International Migration (Eds. B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller) and deals with the political incorporation of immigrants in host societies. Political incorporation is discussed with regard to the regulation of legal status, rights,...
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the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth changed substantially, with an increasing number of immigrants … the case before. Interestingly, the employment integration of immigrants has declined gradually, and in 2006 the … employment rate for foreign-born individuals is substantially lower compared to the native-born. The aim of this paper is to …
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We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of … and family migrants. We find that intermarried immigrants outperformed intramarried ones in employment rates and salaries … mobility in employment status between 1997 and 2007 is higher for intermarried immigrants than for intramarried ones, with this …
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We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … employment rates, significantly increases marriage and marital birth rates, and leads to a substantial increase in the total …
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We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous variation in public social spending, due to varying degrees of political fractionalization (i.e. the number of relevant parties involved in the legislative process), we show...
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Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...
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In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the...
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