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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children

Furtado, Delia - 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...

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Relative labor supply in intermarriage

Nottmeyer, Olga - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-27

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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Inter-ethnic Partnerships: Key Characteristics, and What They Reveal about Successful Integration

Nottmeyer, Olga - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 15, pp. 112-120

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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Inter-ethnische Partnerschaften: was sie auszeichnet - und was sie über erfolgreiche Integration aussagen

Nottmeyer, Olga - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 11, pp. 12-20

Partnerschaften zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen gelten gemeinhin als Ergebnis erfolgreicher sozialer Integration und möglicherweise treibende Kraft hinter ökonomischem Erfolg. So verfügen inter-ethnisch lebende Migrantinnen und Migranten über eine höhere Schulbildung, einen besseren...

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Age at migration and social integration

Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

particular at the marriage market. We also find some effects on educational attainment, employment rates and wages, although …

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Age at migration and social integration

Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

particular at the marriage market. There are also non-trivial effects on employment, but a more limited impact on education and …

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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2004

It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family is correlated with lower educational attainment....

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Single Motherhood and (Un)Equal Educational Opportunities : Evidence for Germany

Mahler, Philippe; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2004

We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using a sample of 14 years old children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous studies for the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden, we find a negative correlation between disrupted family...

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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2005

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

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Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi

Joshi, Shareen - 2004

This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....

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