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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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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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Living arrangements in Western Europe : does cultural origin matter?

Giuliano, Paola (contributor) - 2006

the fraction of young adults living with their parents in Mediterranean Europe. This paper presents a cultural … living arrangements in Northern and Southern Europe on account of the closer parent-child ties in Southern Europe. Such an … country of origin, the US living arrangements of second-generation immigrants mimic those in Europe across countries …

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European vs. American hours worked : assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins

Langot, François (contributor); … - 2008

Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...

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Ambition and jealousy : income interactions in the "old" Europe versus the "new" Europe and the United States

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia (contributor) - 2006

This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income of...

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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); … - 2008

received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the …

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What affects international migration of European science and engineering graduates?

Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier; Sauermann, Jan - 2009

Using a dataset of science and engineering graduates from 12 European countries, we analyse the determinants of labour migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the migration decision, but also differences in labour market opportunities, past migration experience,...

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …

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Kapitalaufnahme von Banken in volatilen Märkten

Jacob, Max; Melzer, Benjamin - In: Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen : Pflichtblatt … 61 (2008) 7, pp. 297-300

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