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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283435

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794040

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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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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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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Settling for academia? : H-1B visas and the career choices of international students in the United States

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Furtado, Delia - 2016

foreign-born students to secure employment in the United States. However, since the year 2000, institutions of higher … education and related non-profit research institutes had been exempt from the cap. We explore how immigrant employment choices …

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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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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...

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A structural analysis of the correlated random coefficient wage regression model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. The model allows for absolute and comparative advantages in the labor market and assumes that the population is composed of 8 unknown...

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