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From immigrants to Americans: race and assimilation during the Great Migration
Fouka, Vasiliki; Mazumder, Shom; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the US South to Northern urban centers, which were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518129
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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 … data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796349
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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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The effect of immigrant peers in vocational schools
Frattini, Tommaso; Meschi, Elena - 2017
This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy's largest region. Vocational training institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732074
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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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Pre-hire factors and workplace ethnic segregation
Strömgren, Magnus; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2011
; intermarriage ; longitudinal analysis ; Sweden …
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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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Intermarriage amid immigration status uncertainty : evidence from DACA
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Wang, Chunbei - 2023
In 2012, the Obama Administration issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by executive order. Since then, more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived as children have benefited from renewable 2-year reprieves from deportation and work permits. In 2017, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014420469
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Employment and wage assimilation of male first generation immigrants in Denmark
Husted, Leif; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; … - 2000
Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employment probabilities are estimated jointly in a random effects model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318603
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Inter- and intra-marriage premiums revisited : it's probably who you are, not who you marry!
Nekby, Lena - 2010
intermarriage premiums are largely due to selection. -- intermarriage ; intra-marriage ; income ; immigration ; assimilation … as well as access to native spouses' networks and contacts. However, marriage choice is endogenous, unobserved factors … influence who we marry and our labor market outcomes. This study uses panel data on immigrants and their spouses in Sweden to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302215