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builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …
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Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
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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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This study examines the impact of having a clear path to lawful permanent resident status, or a "green card," and naturalized citizenship on marital status and spousal characteristics among Chinese immigrants in the United States. A series of U.S. policy changes in the early 1990s made all...
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.S. immigration policy plays an important role in whether immigrants bring in a spouse. We further investigate the trade-offs in …
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Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and a...
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted … terrorism shock. -- immigration ; attitudes ; education ; September 11 ; terrorism …
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to a high age at immigration than that of males. Also, language skills do not appear to be central for the causal …
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, 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. …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work injury risks …. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey (2003-2013), we find that, on average, immigration leads to a … important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels …
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