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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001498
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Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions
Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2006
the same ethnicity. Finally, assortative matching on education in the marriage market suggests that immigrants may be … some of its additional implications. -- interethnic marriage ; human capital ; second-generation immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283435
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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children
Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2009
by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794040
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Interethnic marriages and economic assimilation of immigrants
Kantarevic, Jasmin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002043041
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Women's age at first marriage and marital instability in the United States : differences by race and ethnicity
Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon-jeong - 2017
The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability … suggest explanations for these patterns based in part on differentials in the associations of age at marriage with education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631472
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688845
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A longitudinal study of migration propensities for mixed ethnic unions in England and Wales
Feng, Zhiqiang; Ham, Maarten van; Boyle, Paul J.; Raab, … - 2012
Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults live in couples. In recent years there has been a growth in the number of mixed ethnic unions that involve a minority member and a white member. To our knowledge, hardly any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533353
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Integration of ethnic minorities : do they divorce as natives do?
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Bonke, Jens - 2016
We investigate the divorce patterns among non‐Western immigrants and natives in Denmark. We focus on marriages entered on or after arrival to Denmark and analyze whether inter‐ethnic marriages result in higher divorce rates and whether divorce behavior differs between first- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452238
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Traditional norms, access to divorce and women's empowerment
Bargain, Olivier; Loper, Jordan; Ziparo, Roberta - 2022
Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i.e. matrilocality versus patrilocality. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264803
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Education, spatial disparities in schooling and black-white interracial marriage
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2020
black/white educational distributions in marriage markets. The first contribution of this study is to provide an answer to … black and white education distributions have a significant impact on the black/white interracial marriage probability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266431