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Belzil, Christian (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Structural estimates of the intergenerational education correlation

Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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On the specification of mincerian wage regressions with heterogeneity, non-linearity, non-separability, and heteroskedasticity

Belzil, Christian (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Does culture affect divorce decisions? : evidence from European immigrants in the US

Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2011

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...

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Promotion determinants in corporate hierarchies : an examination of fast tracks and functional area

Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael Leonard; Poinas, … - 2012

This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The estimation conditions on unobserved individual heterogeneity and allows for both an endogenous...

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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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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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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives

Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005- 2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...

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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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Promotions, demotions, halo effects and earnings dynamics of American executives

Belzil, Christian (contributor); … - 2005

This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the causal effect of current and past transitions in reporting level and past earnings growth on components of current earnings and earnings growth using a large panel of US...

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