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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...
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disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration … 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 …
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assimilation, as measured by job occupation scores, marriage to a US native and take-up of US citizenship. We examine economic …
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This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to … 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 …
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examination of the effects of human capital on one dimension of assimilation, immigrant intermarriage. I argue that there are … three primary mechanisms through which human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. First, human capital may make … the same ethnicity. Finally, assortative matching on education in the marriage market suggests that immigrants may be …
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-migration with a version of the shift-share instrument, we find that immigrants living in areas that received more Black migrants …
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the uncertainty surrounding migrants' legal status, as in the case of intermarriage with potentially long … regarding the program's fate after 2017 might have shaped DACA-eligible migrants' decision to marry a U.S. citizen - presumably … show that DACA-eligible immigrants became more likely than similar DACA-ineligible undocumented migrants to marry U …
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all-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women but … a price for the value that intermarriage generates for their husbands. Such 'male dominance' scenario also helps explain … why immigrant men married to native daughters of immigrants from the same region get more benefits from intermarriage than …
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the intermarriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; employment ; immigration …Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed …
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