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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977234
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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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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This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of traditional elderly support structures, where sons live...
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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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positive association. However, in contrast to those who completed their education pre-immigration, immigrants who arrived at a …
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opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …
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- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …
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