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Ethnic Assortative Matching in Marriage and Family Outcomes : Evidence from the Mass Migration to the United States During 1900-1930
Wong, Ho-Po Crystal - 2015
Positive assortative matching in terms of traits like ethnicity, race and personality has been prevalent in marital formation. One possible explanation for this is that spouses in endogamous marriages have complementary skills and tastes that increase marital surplus. This paper aims to estimate...
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Determinants of Integration and Its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants : A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2009
Using new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that the usual suspects, such as time spent in Germany and education, have positive impact, while networks have no impact on integration. There is strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159626
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Marriage before children? : first family formation among the children of immigrants in Norway
Holland, Jennifer A.; Wiik, Kenneth Aa. - 2021
Differences in the timing and pathway into family life provide insights into the social distance between majority and … group distinctions. We situate our study in Norway, a country on the forefront of family change with an increasingly diverse … evidence of generational shifts in the propensity to form a family via a nonmarital first birth, however, in some context …
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Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Wang, … - 2019
This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of interior immigration enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153397
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Determinants of Integration and its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants : A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin
Danzer, Alexander M.; Ulku, Hulya - 2021
Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and education have positive impact, while networks have no impact on integration. There is strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324909
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation immigrants
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283172
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation siblings
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2015
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342868
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How Do Sex Ratios Affect Marriage and Labor Markets? Evidence from America's Second Generation
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2021
Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios and social and economic conditions may be confounded by omitted variables and reverse causality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320789
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Familie, soziales Kapital und soziale Integration : zur Erklärung ethnischer Unterschiede in Partnerwahl und generativen Verhalten bei jungen Erwachsenen deutscher, italienischer u...
Haug, Sonja - In: Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft : Demographie 27 (2002) 4, pp. 393-425
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Coresidency, ethnicity, and happiness of China's rural elders
Connelly, Rachel; Iannotti, Michael; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 Population Census of China and the 2011 Chinese Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES) to analyze coresidency...
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