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by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. …
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Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …
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religious intermarriage and assimilation are reviewed. A concluding section forecasts the future of American Judaism and Jewish …
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process may lead to intermarriage. The exogamy can take on two forms: either migrants and natives each hold on to their own …-theoretic approach to show that, even in situations where migrants and natives prefer to marry within their own community, the search …
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-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …
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diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …
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This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two …-religion relationship, immigration policies and concepts? The main findings are the following: (a) immigrants are indeed more religious than …
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population of all married immigrants. These two hypotheses are analyzed within a model in which earnings of immigrants and their …-intermarried immigrants tend to be negatively selected, and the intermarriage premium obtained by the least squares completely vanishes once …
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Borjas thesis that self-selection and not immigration policy sorts immigrants between Canada and the U.S. …
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Naturalization is usually regarded as an important sign of civic and political integration amongst immigrants, but it can also be seen as a factor of their economic integration. The aim of this study is to analyze the naturalization phenomenon in France and examine its link with the immigrants'...
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