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I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job : Marital Assimilation and Immigrant Employment Rates

Furtado, Delia - 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 for the usual measures of human capital and immigrant assimilation …

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Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation : Earnings Premiums Among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives

Furtado, Delia - 2014

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005-2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...

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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Furtado, Delia - 2014

While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress … wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the … childcare industry, this paper examines whether college-educated native women respond to immigrant-induced lower cost and …

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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 … examination of the effects of human capital on one dimension of assimilation, immigrant intermarriage. I argue that there are …

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Settling for Academia? H-1b Visas and the Career Choices of International Students in the United States

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2016

education and related non-profit research institutes had been exempt from the cap. We explore how immigrant employment choices …

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Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans

Almuhaisen, Abdulmohsen; Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; … - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between immigration enforcement and institutionalization rates of the elderly. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the Secure Communities (SC) immigration enforcement program across U.S. counties from 2008 through 2014, we show that SC led to a 0.26...

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How do low-skilled immigrants adjust to Chinese import shocks? : evidence using English language proficiency

Furtado, Delia; Kong, Haiyang - 2021

This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language fluency rates among low-skilled immigrants in the United States. Many of the production-based manufacturing jobs lost in recent years due to Chinese import competition did not...

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How Do Low-Education Immigrants Adjust to Chinese Import Shocks? Evidence Using English Language Proficiency1

Furtado, Delia; Kong, Haiyang - 2022

This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language fluency rates among low-education immigrants in the United States. The production-based manufacturing jobs lost due to Chinese import competition around the turn of the century...

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SSI for Disabled Immigrants : Why Do Ethnic Networks Matter?

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2013

Security Income (SSI) for a disability when they belong to high SSI take-up immigrant groups. After showing that this …

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Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs : Evidence from U.S. Census Data

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2012

This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the United States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of residence fixed effects, immigrants residing amidst a large number of co-ethnics are more likely...

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