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by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. …
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Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …
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religious intermarriage and assimilation are reviewed. A concluding section forecasts the future of American Judaism and Jewish …
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process may lead to intermarriage. The exogamy can take on two forms: either migrants and natives each hold on to their own …-theoretic approach to show that, even in situations where migrants and natives prefer to marry within their own community, the search …
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process may lead to intermarriage. The exogamy can take on two forms: either migrants and natives each hold on to their own …-theoretic approach to show that, even in situations where migrants and natives prefer to marry within their own community, the search …
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-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …
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The most important economic feature of immigration to the United States in the post- 1965 period has been a significant …
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diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …
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This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two …-religion relationship, immigration policies and concepts? The main findings are the following: (a) immigrants are indeed more religious than …
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from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as … measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection …
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