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Marriage behaviour and labour market integration : the case of the children of guest worker immigrants in Denmark
Çelikaksoy Mortensen, E. Aycan - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003401923
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Human capital, cultural dissimilarity, and intermarriage : a longitudinal study of immigrants in Sweden 1990-2005
Dribe, Martin; Lundh, Christer - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926270
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I'll marry you if you get me a job : marital assimilation and immigrant employment rates
Furtado, Delia (contributor);  … - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796349
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688845
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I'll marry you if you get me a job : marital assimilation and immigrant employment rates
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - In: International journal of manpower 30 (2009) 1/2, pp. 116-126
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524754
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I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job : Marital Assimilation and Immigrant Employment Rates
Furtado, Delia - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765216
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Horizontal inequality, status optimization, and interethnic marriage in a conflict-affected society
McDoom, Omar - 2016
Although several theories of interethnic conflict emphasize ties across group boundaries as conducive to ethnic coexistence, little is known about how such ties are formed. Given their integrative potential, I examine the establishment of cross-ethnic marital ties in a deeply divided society and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581381
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Intermarriage and the economic success of immigrants : who is the driving factor - the native spouses or the immigrants themselves?
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2015
Marriages between immigrants and natives (intermarriages) are often associated with economic success and interpreted as an indicator of social integration. Intermarried immigrant men are on average better educated and work in better paid jobs than nonintermarried immigrant men. In this context,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432154
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001498
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Opposites attract : evidence of status exchange in ethnic intermarriages in Sweden
Elwert, Annika - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525339