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Brides for sale : cross-border marriages and female immigration
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Soohyung - 2012
from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. -- immigration ; marriage ; sex ratio imbalance ; international marriages ; cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534886
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Female migration and native marital stability : insights from Italy
Vignoli, Daniele; Venturini, Alessandra; Pirani, Elena - 2015
formation and dissolution dynamics in recent immigration countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347111
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Brides for Sale : Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2012
Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian countries. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107713
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A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex-Based Occupational Clustering
Benson, Alan - 2014
I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lower-paying geographically-dispersed occupations due to expectations of future spouses' geographically-clustered occupations and (thereby) inability to relocate for work. Results confirm men segregate into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068364
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Brides for Sale : Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Soohyung - 2012
Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian countries. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171786
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How Can Preferences for Same-Trait Marriage Increase Investment in Education?
Hakak, Lorena - 2020
I model how agents' marriage decisions and schooling investments relate to cultural and religious intragroup preferences. Men and women's incentives to acquire education and marry change depending on their preferences to marry within their own cultural traits, as marital gains are reinforced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847234
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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US
Furtado, Delia - 2011
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120410
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Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Nicodemo, Catia; … - 2016
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks …. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation … important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572021
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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment
Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2016
to a high age at immigration than that of males. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011552457
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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment
Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
to a high age at immigration than that of males. Also, language skills do not appear to be central for the causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662703