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theoretical background which explains how marriage to a native may positively or negatively affect an immigrant's employment … probability. Utilizing the 2000 U.S. Census, we first look at the effect of cross-nativity marriages on employment using a linear … immigrant assimilation suggest that marriage to a native increases the employment probability of an immigrant by approximately 5 …
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This paper examines the effect of education on intermarriage and specifically, whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation and race. We consider three main paths through which education …
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immigrant employment rates. We show that even when controlling for a variety of human capital and assimilation measures … variation in marriage market conditions suggests that the relationship between marriage decisions and employment rates is not …
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positive association. However, in contrast to those who completed their education pre-immigration, immigrants who arrived at a …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta …-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly …
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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
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particular at the marriage market. There are also non-trivial effects on employment, but a more limited impact on education and …
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increases the likelihood of divorce and intermarriage. It decreases fertility and, for some groups, ethnic enclave residence. …
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, the role of immigration has been put forward as a driving factor among others. Increased immigration affects supply and … prices of household services, which are relevant for fertility and employment decisions. This paper analyses the effect of … immigration on labour supply and fertility of native women in the UK, with a focus on the role of immigration on household …
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