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positive impact of immigration on native men's employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of …In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US … aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the …
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For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed … effects model is estimated separately for each marriage type to further disentangle a causal effect of intermarriage (intra …
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probability of immigrant employment. We start by confirming in both least squares and instrumental variables frameworks that … marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … relationship between marriage decisions and employment …
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the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … intermarried families stresses the importance of intermarriage in assimilation process. Our results are robust to different …
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Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian countries. This paper...
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hand, intermarriage reduces the chance of starting up a business possibly because better access to local networks can help … transitions into other forms of employment (e.g. paid employment). On the other hand, superior access to local networks through …
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Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The … the intermarriage decision …
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A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...
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formation and dissolution dynamics in recent immigration countries …
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We use exogenously determined, long-distance relocations of U.S. Army soldiers to investigate the impact of moving on marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a...
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