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Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … education, native spouses supply more market labor. Intermarriage may also skew bargaining power in favor of native husbands in …
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country and provide business contacts. However, intermarriage may not be the driving factor of economic success but instead be … likelihood of meeting natives. Intermarriage might also be more "suspense-packed" (positively and negatively) and can thus be …
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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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This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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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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builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …
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We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of … find that refugee inflows caused a decline in female employment with no significant impact on male employment. This decline …
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This paper investigates the relationship between maternal employment and child outcomes using micro-data collected in … the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. A novel source of exogenous variation in the employment … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the …
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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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