Showing 1 - 10 of 363
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532844
This paper examines the effect of education on intermarriage and specifically, whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation and race. We consider three main paths through which education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533093
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532678
positive association. However, in contrast to those who completed their education pre-immigration, immigrants who arrived at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533092
Bildungs- und Erwerbskarrieren. microDEMS (Demographic Change, Employment and Social Security) ist ein am WIFO entwickeltes … zur Immigration nach Herkunft und Typ. Der individuelle (und elterliche) Immigrationshintergrund beeinflusst zahlreiche …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297189
This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native Germans as a benchmark. We propose an empirical analysis that highlights two important insights. First, there is a substantial gap in the returns to education between natives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013333545
qualifications. This gap is strongly driven by age at immigration, with immigration age and education revealing a nonlinear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502028
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305484
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325567
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266409