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Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
whether selective intermarriage and endogenous ethnic identification interact to hide some of the intergenerational progress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703532
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Ancestry versus Ethnicity: The Complexity and Selectivity of Mexican Identification in the United States
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, intermarriage and the Mexican identification of children are also strongly related to how U.S.-born Mexican adults report their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762440
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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is therefore important to analyze differences not just between the foreign-born and U.S-born, but also across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422062
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Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects
Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds … with an examination of the economic consequences of intermarriage, and ends with a discussion of the links between … intermarriage, ethnic identification, and measurement of long-term socioeconomic integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653987
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The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Schindler Rangvid, Beatrice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. We exploit local variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403377
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making – willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people – are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762390
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labor Force Participation
Farré, Lídia; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using a sample of mother-child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the Young Adults of the NLSY79 we explore the relationship between a woman’s attitudes towards the role of females in the labor market and the attitudes of her children. We also examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822527
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On the Emergence of Toyboys: Equilibrium Matching with Ageing and Uncertain Careers
Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Toyboy marriages (where the female partner is at least 5 years older than her male partner) have grown threefold since the 1970s in the United States and Britain. This paper examines this phenomenon using an equilibrium search framework in which becoming successful in the labour market takes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763746
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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … intermarried families stresses the importance of intermarriage in assimilation process. Our results are robust to different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353617
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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It's Probably Who You Are, Not Who You Marry!
Nekby, Lena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed … effects model is estimated separately for each marriage type to further disentangle a causal effect of intermarriage (intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727772