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theoretical background which explains how marriage to a native may positively or negatively affect an immigrant's employment … probability. Utilizing the 2000 U.S. Census, we first look at the effect of cross-nativity marriages on employment using a linear … immigrant assimilation suggest that marriage to a native increases the employment probability of an immigrant by approximately 5 …
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immigrant employment rates. We show that even when controlling for a variety of human capital and assimilation measures … variation in marriage market conditions suggests that the relationship between marriage decisions and employment rates is not …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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example, failure to control for endogeneity of immigration itself leads to an underestimate of its employment impact. …Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration …
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recent decades. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, in the form of … where these effects should have been stronger. By analyzing the behavior of population, employment and wages of U.S. natives … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit the differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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immigrant employment in Finland and the fiscal impact of immigration as well as the effect on the labor market. We show that the … number of employed immigrants as well as immigrants' employment rate in Finland has increased. We review the economic impacts … of immigration. We show that the fiscal impact of immigration depends heavily on the characteristics of immigrants and …
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employment effect of immigration during the liberalization of migration policies from 2005 to 2018 using a spatial approach. A … unique and manually collected data for 156 statistical regions based on the definition of the German Federal Employment … employment rate, and this negative effect is substantially larger than those reported in previous studies on the employment …
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Spouse's relative labor supply and the degree of specialization in intermarriage might differ from that in immigrant …-neutral specialization index. Results indicate that for immigrants intermarriage is indeed related to less specialization, as is similar …, on the other hand, the likelihood to specialize increases with intermarriage. This might result from differences in …
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Partnerships between immigrants and native-born citizens are commonly viewed as the product of successful social integration, as well as a possible driving force of economic success. Thus, immigrants living in inter-ethnic partnerships have on average a higher level of education, better...
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