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Ethnic identification, intermarriage, and unmeasured progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian (contributor); Trejo, Stephen J. (contributor) - 2005

Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...

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Interethnic marriages and economic assimilation of immigrants

Kantarevic, Jasmin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Immigrant self-employment : does intermarriage matter?

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2009

This paper investigates the effect of a native spouse on the transitions into and out of entrepreneurship of male immigrants in the U.S. We find that those married to a native are less likely to start up a business compared to those married to an immigrant. This finding is robust when the...

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Household division of labor, partnerships and children : evidence from Europe

Gimenez, Jose Ignacio (contributor); … - 2007

-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in … differential impact on partnership formation rates in Northern and Southern Europe due to the different social norms regarding the … partnership formation rates in Southern Europe. …

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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US : new results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012

Europe. -- household labor supply ; elasticity ; taxation ; Europe ; US …

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Assimilation through marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2012

During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. This paper shows how the willingness of locals and immigrants to intermarry influences the...

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Retirement patterns of couples in Europe

Hospido, Laura; Zamarro, Gema - 2014

Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …

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Bargaining over babies : theory, evidence, and policy implications

Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2016

It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...

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The effect of divorce laws on divorce rates in Europe

González, Libertad (contributor); … - 2006

increase in divorce rates across Europe. We use a quasi-experimental set-up and exploit the different timing of the reforms in … legal reforms account for about 20 percent of the increase in divorce rates in Europe between 1960 and 2002. -- divorce …

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Widows' time, time stress and happiness: adjusting to loss

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2021

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...

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