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Happily ever after : immigration, natives' marriage, and fertility
Carlana, Michela; Tabellini, Marco - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845572
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I'll marry you if you get me a job: marital assimilation and immigrant employment rates
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2009
Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The … the intermarriage decision. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269277
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Happily Ever after : Immigration, Natives' Marriage, and Fertility
Carlana, Michela - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920447
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Happily ever after : immigration, natives' marriage, and fertility
Carlana, Michela; Tabellini, Marco - 2019 - This Version: March 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013177
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Happily Ever After : Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility
Carlana, Michela; Tabellini, Marco - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014110359
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Interethnic Marriage : A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2021
This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325258
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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives
Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014
can be explained by increases in the returns to a college education. However, we find increasing intermarriage premiums …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434502
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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children
Furtado, Delia - 2009
A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269322
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Social barriers to female migration : theory and evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303638
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Marriage, work and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910970