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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...
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disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration …
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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/10012765304
variable is intermarriage across ethnic groups and the inclusion of the explanatory variables is justified by a simple rational … post-migration marriages can be identified. Results show that the probability of intermarriage increases the longer a … measure of the marriage market by using data from several Censuses. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio …
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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...
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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/10012149386
examination of the effects of human capital on one dimension of assimilation, immigrant intermarriage. I argue that there are … three primary mechanisms through which human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. First, human capital may make … human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. Further support for the model is provided by deriving and testing …
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examination of the effects of human capital on one dimension of assimilation, immigrant intermarriage. I argue that there are … three primary mechanisms through which human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. First, human capital may make … human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. Further support for the model is provided by deriving and testing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780621
From 1992 to 2014, Brazil experienced a decline in income inequality along with a significant increase in schooling level, though the latter was more pronounced among women. Brazil also experienced a decline in returns to education, whereas an opposite trend was observed in several developed...
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the low black-white intermarriage rate puzzle by suggesting that as black and white educational differences in general …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … than the racial adaptability effect in explaining intermarriage probability of black males. Our results suggest that rising …
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