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theoretical background which explains how marriage to a native may positively or negatively affect an immigrant's employment … probability. Utilizing the 2000 U.S. Census, we first look at the effect of cross-nativity marriages on employment using a linear … immigrant assimilation suggest that marriage to a native increases the employment probability of an immigrant by approximately 5 …
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positive impact of immigration on native men's employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of …In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US … aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the …
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We study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 … to marry, have kids, and leave the parental house earlier. Our evidence suggests that the positive impact of immigration … on native men’s employment, which increased the supply of native “marriageable men”, contributed to generate these …
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This paper examines the effect of education on intermarriage and specifically, whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation and race. We consider three main paths through which education …
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immigrant employment rates. We show that even when controlling for a variety of human capital and assimilation measures … variation in marriage market conditions suggests that the relationship between marriage decisions and employment rates is not …
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, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …
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a price for the value that intermarriage generates for their husbands. Such '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 …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration …
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This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …, low-educated native workers experience employment losses due to immigration, whereas high-educated ones are more likely to …
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can be explained by increases in the returns to a college education. However, we find increasing intermarriage premiums …
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