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Does intermarriage pay off? : A panel data analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as … from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who … eventually intermarry receive greater returns to experience indicating better labor market integration. -- Intermarriage …

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Who marries differently-aged spouses? : Earnings, ability and appearance

Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2011

In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of married couples in the 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000...

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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe : for money or colonial vestiges?

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009

Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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Ethnic minorities in the European Union : an overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelica; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Gender, ethnic identity and work

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2006

The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority …

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Patrilocal residence and female labour supply

Landmann, Andreas; Seitz, Helke; Steiner, Susan - 2017

Many people around the world live in patrilocal societies. Patrilocality prescribes that women move in with their husbands' parents, relieve their in-laws from housework, and care for them in old age. This arrangement is likely to have labour market consequences, in particular for the women. We...

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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany

Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...

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Labour supply of married females in Estonia

Siliverstovs, Boriss; Koulikov, Dmitri - 2003

In this paper we estimate the labor supply function for married females in Estonia. Particularly, we are interested in determining the elasticities of the weekly supply ofhours with respect to hourly wage rates and with respect to nonlabor income. We adopt the two-step estimation procedure. In...

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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...

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