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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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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success

Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - 2018

This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....

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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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Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2006

examination of the effects of human capital on one dimension of assimilation, immigrant intermarriage. I argue that there are … three primary mechanisms through which human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. First, human capital may make … human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. Further support for the model is provided by deriving and testing …

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Education, Spatial Disparities in Schooling and Black-White Interracial Marriage

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2020

the low black-white intermarriage rate puzzle by suggesting that as black and white educational differences in general …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … than the racial adaptability effect in explaining intermarriage probability of black males. Our results suggest that rising …

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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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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...

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