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Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009
in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting … caused by changing social norms. -- Assortative mating ; divorce ; marital instability ; immigration … supply of spouses with diverse ethnicity and religious denominations had no overall effect on divorce rates. Countervailing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900751
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Immigrants and demography : marriage, divorce, and fertility
Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2014
This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250042
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Marry your like : assortative mating and income inequality
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - 2014
Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In...
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more...
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …, and among Mexican immigrants who live in an environment in which divorce is more prevalent. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001498
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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 have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631472
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Less alimony after divorce : spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694836
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Marital instability in the United States : trends, driving forces, and implications for children
Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon Jeong - 2017
This paper surveys some of the main strands in the recent literature on the economics of divorce, with a focus on U ….S. studies. We begin with a discussion of changes over time in the divorce rate and the widening gap in marital instability by … different relationships by race and ethnicity. Compared to other developed economies, the divorce rate in the U.S. is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607431
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Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Wang, … - 2019
intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in … the implementation of interior immigration enforcement from 2005 to 2017, we find that a one standard deviation increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153397
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The value of a green card in the U.S. marriage market : a tale of chain migration?
Bansak, Cynthia; Dziadula, Eva; Zavodny, Madeline - 2023
This study examines the impact of having a clear path to lawful permanent resident status, or a "green card," and naturalized citizenship on marital status and spousal characteristics among Chinese immigrants in the United States. A series of U.S. policy changes in the early 1990s made all...
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