Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the … marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … likely to arise solely from legal status acquired through marriage or characteristics of native spouses. We then present …