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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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Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy
Mariani, Rama Dasi; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2021
The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this...
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The effect of same-sex marriage legalization on interstate migration in the United States
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2019
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of marriage regulation on the migratory behavior of individuals using … the history of the liberalization of same-sex marriage across the United States. Because the approval of same-sex marriage … allows homosexuals access to legal rights and social benefits, marriage becomes more attractive relative to singlehood or …
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Daughters, savings and household finances
Wen, Xin; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano - 2024
less competitive marriage market for families with daughters vs. those with sons. As a result, such families have lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015066016
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Men's premarital migration and marriage payments : evidence from Indonesia
Champeaux, Hugues; Gautrain, Elsa; Marazyan, Karine - 2024
investigate the relationship between marriage norms and the internal migrations of young men in age to marry. Based on empirical … ethnic groups without marriage payments. We interpret these results as evidence for the fact that men migrate to accumulate … strategies are implemented by the less advantaged males in their origin marriage market (latter-borns or from lower social class …
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Labour mobility and interprovincial trade in Canada
Aziz, Nusrate; Mahar, Gerry - 2019
This study estimates the impact of interprovincial and international migration on interprovincial trade using annual data from 1981- 2016 for Canadian provinces. We apply both the gravity and the spatial trade models for estimation using a number of panel estimators. We find that the endogeneity...
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Cultural similarity and migration : new evidence from a gravity model of international migration
Grohmann, Tobias - 2023 - This version 15 November 2023
Theory suggests that cultural similarity increases migration flows between countries. This paper brings best practices from the trade gravity literature to migration to test this prediction. In my preferred specification, I use lags of time-varying similarity variables in a panel of...
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Migration and university education : an empirical (macro) link
Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022
Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We...
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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico
Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys - 2022
While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known about the mitigating effect of different policies directed to the agricultural sector, or aimed at insuring against environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on...
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It's the way people move! : labour migration as an adjustment device in Russia
Pastore, Francesco; Semerikova, Elena - 2020
This paper aims to assess the role of migration as an adjustment mechanism device to favor convergence across states and regions of Russia. In contrast to previous studies, we use variations in the population of a region as a proxy of its net migration rate and apply spatial econometric...
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