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Who Goes on Disability when Times are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up among Immigrants
Furtado, Delia; Papps, Kerry L.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2019
show that immigrants from country-of-origin groups that have lower social costs to participation, as measured by past SSDI … participation rates for their origin group, are more sensitive to economic downturns than immigrants from high cost groups. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532842
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Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly … duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532864
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Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W.; Lee, Yew Liang - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2004
This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly … duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967960
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Are there gender and county of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations?
Adserà, Alícia; Chiswick, Barry R. - In: Journal of population economics 20 (2007) 3, pp. 495-526
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498423
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Family matters : the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - In: Journal of population economics 18 (2005) 4, pp. 631-647
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003233712
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Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Journal of population economics 23 (2010) 1, pp. 353-372
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922936
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Intermarriage and Immigrant Employment: The Role of Networks
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2009
The social integration of immigrants is believed to be an important determinant of immigrants' labor market outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532678
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I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job: Cross-Nativity Marriages and Immigrant Employment Rates
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2008
This paper tests whether marriage to a native affects the probability that an immigrant is employed. We provide a 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532844
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Ethnicity and Second Generation Immigrants in Britain
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Theodoropoulos, … - 2010
immigrants in the UK over the last three decades. We first describe the size and composition of the minority population and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533005
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Interethnic Marriage Decisions: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2007
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 affects marriage choice. First, educated people may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533093