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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US

Furtado, Delia - 2011

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...

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The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation

Giuntella, Osea - 2016

It is well-known that immigrants tend to be healthier than US natives and that this advantage erodes with time spent in the US. However, we know less about the heterogeneity of these trajectories among arrival cohorts. Recent studies have shown that later arrival cohorts of immigrants have lower...

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Why Does the Health of Immigrants Deteriorate? Evidence from Birth Records

Giuntella, Osea - 2013

Despite their lower socioeconomic status, Hispanic immigrants in the United States initially have better health outcomes than natives. Paradoxically while second-generation immigrants assimilate socio-economically, their health deteriorates. I show that a model of selection and intergenerational...

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Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?

Furtado, Delia - 2020

The growing healthcare needs of baby boomers require significant increases in the number or productivity of healthcare workers. This paper explores how immigrants may fill these gaps in nursing homes. First, we show that immigrant inflows are associated with reduced wages of lower skilled nurses...

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The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times

Giuntella, Osea - 2015

Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting times for outpatient referrals and did not have significant effects …This paper analyses the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England …. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour …

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Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?

Giuntella, Osea - 2014

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time … results suggest that immigration reduces residents' likelihood to report negative health outcomes by improving their working …

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Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation : Earnings Premiums Among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives

Furtado, Delia - 2014

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005-2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...

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Can Immigrants Help Women 'Have it All'? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2014

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Furtado, Delia - 2014

While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...

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Immigration Policy and Immigrants' Sleep : Evidence from Daca

Giuntella, Osea - 2020

stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy can directly affect mental health. While previous studies have … documented a significant relationship between immigration policy and the physical and mental health of immigrants, we know little … about the effects that immigration policy may have on immigrants' sleep patterns. Exploiting the approval of the Deferred …

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