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Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States

Furtado, Delia (contributor); Hock, Heinrich (contributor) - 2008

The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s …

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How Americans viewed their lives in 2005

Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 49 (2006) 3, pp. 48-67

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Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions

Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2006

Despite a longstanding belief that education importantly affects the process of immigrant assimilation, little is known about the relative importance of different mechanisms linking these two processes. This paper explores this issue through an examination of the effects of human capital on one...

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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children

Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2009

A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...

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I'll marry you if you get me a job : marital assimilation and immigrant employment rates

Furtado, Delia (contributor); … - 2009

Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The … the intermarriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; employment ; immigration …

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How Americans view their lives

Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 50 (2007) 3, pp. 5-25

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Public opinion, the deep recession, and the 2010 elections

Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 53 (2010) 5, pp. 14-33

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Why does intermarriage increase immigrant employment? ; the role of networks

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2010

probability of immigrant employment. We start by confirming in both least squares and instrumental variables frameworks that … marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … relationship between marriage decisions and employment. -- immigration ; marriage ; employment ; networks …

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Interethnic marriage : a choice between ethnic and educational similarities

Furtado, Delia (contributor); … - 2008

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 which education affects marriage choice. First,...

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Immigrant networks and the take-up of disability programs : evidence from US census data

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2012

This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the United States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of residence fixed effects, immigrants residing amidst a large number of co-ethnics are more likely...

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