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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427875
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The impact of the length of schooling on the timing of family formation
Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - 2020
Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years in Germany in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270851
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924315
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Networks and selection in international migration to Spain
Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - 2013 - This version: May 2013
This paper provides new evidence on migrant networks as determinants of the total size (scale) and skill structure of migration, using aggregate data from a recent migration boom to Spain. We draw upon McFadden (1984, 1422-1428) in order to develop and apply a three-level nested multinomial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763852
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Human trafficking, a shadow of migration : evidence from Germany
Cho, Seo-young - 2012
This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between migration and human trafficking inflows into Germany during the period between 2001 and 2010. My results suggest that migrant networks, measured by migrant stocks from a specific source country, have a causal linkage with the illicit,...
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The dynamics of repeat migration : a Markov chain analysis
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003 - Draft: October 2003
for Germany, the largest European immigration country, shows that more than 60% of the migrants are indeed repeat migrants …
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Circular movements And time away from the host country
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003
Germany, the largest European immigration country, are indeed repeat migrants. The findings indicate that immigrants from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439444
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The effect of migration on careers of natives : evidence from long-term care
Haan, Peter; Wnuk, Izabela - 2024
better working conditions, higher wages, and non-manual tasks, it simultaneously diminishes re-employment prospects for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468832
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A lost generation? : Long term socioeconomic outcomes in orphans
Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010
educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns …. -- Orphans ; employment ; wages ; fertility ; parental investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009268978