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Inter- and intra-marriage premiums revisited: It's probably who you are, not who you marry!

Nekby, Lena - 2010

For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed … effects model is estimated separately for each marriage type to further disentangle a causal effect of intermarriage (intra …

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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? Lessons from the US time use survey

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-37

the value that intermarriage generates for their husbands. Such a "male dominance" scenario also helps explain why … immigrant men married to native daughters of immigrants from the same region get more benefits from intermarriage than other …

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001

wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good …

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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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Anthropometry of love - height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages

Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2009

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We...

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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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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

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Women, schooling, and marriage in rural Philippines

DeSilva, Sanjaya; Bin Bakhtiar, Mohammed Mehrab - 2011

Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...

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