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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform
Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2001
In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral...
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Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women
Bertrand, Marianne - 2016
In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997912
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Is the New Immigration Really so Bad?
Card, David - 2021
This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218827
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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success
Battisti, Michele - 2016
This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian - 2012
capital selectivity of Mexican intermarriage generates corresponding differences in the employment and earnings of Mexican …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100585
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Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy
Bisin, Alberto - 2019
We study the cultural integration of immigrants, estimating a structural model of marital matching along ethnic … dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich …, as well as fertility and homogamy rates, slow-down the cultural integration of some immigrant ethnic minorities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862406
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Migration to the Us and Marital Mobility
Christopoulou, Rebekka - 2013
estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective …-age. To control for selective migration, we instrument the migration decision using inflows of immigrants to the US during … puberty and early adulthood. We find that migration causes men to marry up and women to marry down, but self-selection into …
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Consequences of Imbalanced Sex Ratios : Evidence from America'S Second Generation
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2021
A combination of changing migration patterns and US immigration restrictions acted to shift the male-female balance in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222210
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The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants : Aging and Cohort Effects Revisited Again
Borjas, George J. - 2013
This paper examines the evolution of immigrant earnings in the United States between 1970 and 2010. There are cohort effects not only in wage levels, with more recent cohorts having lower entry wages through 1990, but also in the rate of wage growth, with more recent cohorts experiencing less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080828
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Understanding Young Women's Marriage Decisions : The Role of Labor and Marriage Market Conditions
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2022
Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is regressed on personal characteristics and MSA indicators,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309206