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Interethnic Marriage : A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2021

This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through …

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Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2021

whether selective intermarriage and endogenous ethnic identification interact to hide some of the intergenerational progress …

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Marriage, Partnership and Sexual Orientation : A Study of British University Academics and Administrators

Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2021

Using a unique data source on marital status, partnership and sexual orientation of academics and administrators at British universities, we estimate the impact of personal relationships upon earnings for men and women. While university data cover a relatively homogeneous group of workers, the...

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Fertility Differences between Married and Cohabiting Couples : A Switching Regression Analysis

Zhang, Junfu; Song, Xue - 2021

Little is known about why cohabiting couples have fewer children than married couples. We explore the factors that explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to quantify the contribution of different factors through a...

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'Arranged' Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling : A Model with Evidence from India

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Maitra, Pushkar; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2021

We model the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from having married sons live with them. By choosing uneducated...

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Marriage and Divorce Since World War II : Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - 2021

Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. It is argued here that labor-saving technological progress in the household sector can...

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Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli Manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999

Paserman, Daniele - 2021

-skilled immigration wave was one of the main determinants for the fast growth of the Israeli economy in the 1990s. In this paper, I use a …

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Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants : A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration

Jasso, Guillermina; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2021

This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main … determinants of the size and skill composition of employment immigrants to developed countries. Our approach emphasizes the key … immigration gains are greater from immigrating to United States. (5) The estimated coefficients determining migration flows to …

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …

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South-South Migration : The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H. - 2021

More than half of those who emigrate from developing countries move to other developing countries, yet there have been few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another...

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