the fraction of young adults living with their parents in Mediterranean Europe. This paper presents a cultural … receives support from data on the living arrangements of second-generation immigrants in the US. Both in 1970 and 2000, by … country of origin, the US living arrangements of second-generation immigrants mimic those in Europe across countries …

as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and … states to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture. …

their parents. The neighbourhood choice pattern of those who leave the parental home for independent and shared living … arrangements does not differ markedly from that of their parents, while nest-leavers for union formation are more likely to move to …

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …

effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … adult male immigrants from non-English speaking countries. Linguistic concentrations reduce the immigrant?s own English … language skills. Moreover, immigrant?s earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the …

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …

natives and immigrants in the U.S., focusing on the role of English ability. The results indicate that, during the period 1997 …-2003, immigrants were significantly less likely to have access to or use a computer and the Internet. Moreover, the gap in IT usage … widened during that period. Immigrants (and natives) who live in Spanish-speaking households are less likely than individuals …

This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in … the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on … average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower levels of education, limited English skills, and less social capital …

This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that … between the occupational choice decision of recently arrived immigrants with those of established immigrants from the same …

language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives … (the three E's) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants …