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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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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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Parental unemployment and children's school performance
Öster, Anna - 2006
This study investigates the effect of parental unemployment on children’s school performance. We use individual level data for all children completing lower secondary school in Sweden in 1990 directly moving on to three years of upper secondary school. We control for family and individual...
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Pre-hire factors and workplace ethnic segregation
Strömgren, Magnus; Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten; … - 2011
In addition to neighbourhoods of residence, family and places of work play important roles in producing and reproducing ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and contact is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas towards other important domains of...
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Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden.
Edin, Per-Anders; LaLonde, Robert J.; Åslund, Olof - 2000
of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant …
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