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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 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...
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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286158
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Trick or treat? : the Brexit effect on immigrants' wellbeing in the UK
Rienzo, Cinzia - 2020
This paper is the first attempt to analyse the effect of the Brexit Referendum results on subjective well-being of immigrants living in the UK. Using the national representative UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) data and adopting a difference-in-differences estimates, we...
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Immigration and the health of older natives in Western Europe
Escarce, José J.; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2018
Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131032
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Does it pay to say "I do"? : marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021
We analyse the different fiscal treatment of married and cohabiting couples across all EU Member States using microsimulation methods. Our paper highlights important differences across EU countries' tax-benefit systems, where seven countries show substantial bonuses for married couples and four...
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A simple solution to the problem of independence of irrelevant alternatives in Choo and Siow marriage market model
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2019
This paper proposes a simple solution to the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) problem in Choo and Siow (2006) model, overcoming what is probably the main limitation of this approach. The solution consists of assuming match-specific rather than choice-specific random preferences. The...
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The lock-in effect of marriage : work incentives after saying, "Yes, I do."
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2022
In this paper, we use EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model of the European Union, to investigate the impact of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net...
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Marriage versus cohabitation : how specialization and time use differ by relationship type
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023
Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...
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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?
Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019
In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and … immigration on domestic unemployment in the short and in the long run. In the long run, immigration is found to reduce … unemployment in all peripheral-countries. In core countries, we find no long-run impact of immigration on unemployment due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162043
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The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labor market hierarchies
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2022
variation in changes of immigration and integration policies across Western EU member states to study how they are associated … with labor market hierarchies in terms of unemployment and employment quality gaps between immigrant and native populations …
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