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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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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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We use exogenously determined, long-distance relocations of U.S. Army soldiers to investigate the impact of moving on marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a...
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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...
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disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration …
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the intermarriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; employment ; immigration …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 …
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hand, intermarriage reduces the chance of starting up a business possibly because better access to local networks can help … transitions into other forms of employment (e.g. paid employment). On the other hand, superior access to local networks through …
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