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. …

; 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-marriage …For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …

desire to understand better the nature of the assimilation process of immigrants is due to increased immigration flows in … many western countries. In this paper we try to study the role of intermarriage in the process of immigrant economic … are endogamously married. Once taking into account individual characteristics and endogeneity of intermarriage, the …

Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …

by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. …

can be explained by increases in the returns to a college education. However, we find increasing intermarriage premiums …

importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage …

.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the … marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … likely to arise solely from legal status acquired through marriage or characteristics of native spouses. We then present …

proficiency on immigrants' earnings. The results, based on Instrumental Variables (IV), point to a substantial earnings return to …

examine employment and earnings among Chinese immigrants who were likely beneficiaries of the U.S. government's actions …. Relative to immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea – countries not covered by the post-Tiananmen immigration policy … measures – highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …