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Does culture affect divorce decisions? Evidence from European immigrants in the US
Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2011
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 … laws and institutions, we interpret relationships between their divorce tendencies and home country divorce rates as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280729
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Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions
Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2006
Despite a longstanding belief that education importantly affects the process of immigrant assimilation, little is known about the relative importance of different mechanisms linking these two processes. This paper explores this issue through an examination of the effects of human capital on one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283435
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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children
Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794040
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I'll marry you if you get me a job : marital assimilation and immigrant employment rates
Furtado, Delia (contributor);  … - 2009
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. Results from an ordinary least squares model controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796349
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Why does intermarriage increase immigrant employment? ; the role of networks
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2010
Social networks are commonly understood to play a large role in the labor market success of immigrants. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the probability of immigrant employment. We start by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779175
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Interethnic marriage : a choice between ethnic and educational similarities
Furtado, Delia (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through which education affects marriage choice. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688794
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Interethnic marriages and their economic effects
Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2012
Immigrants who marry outside of their ethnicity tend to have better economic outcomes than those who marry within ethnicity. It is difficult, however, to interpret this relationship because individuals with stronger preferences for ethnic endogamy are likely to differ in unobserved ways from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533328
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Does culture affect divorce decisions? : evidence from European immigrants in the US
Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2011
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 … laws and institutions, we interpret relationships between their divorce tendencies and home country divorce rates as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408768
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Why Does Intermarriage Increase Immigrant Employment? The Role of Networks
Furtado, Delia - 2010
Social networks are commonly understood to play a large role in the labor market success of immigrants. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the probability of immigrant employment. We start by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139945
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Human Capital and Interethnic Marriage Decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2006
Despite a longstanding belief that education importantly affects the process of immigrant assimilation, little is known about the relative importance of different mechanisms linking these two processes. This paper explores this issue through an examination of the effects of human capital on one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780621