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Chapter 7. Immigrants and Demography : Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility

Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 315-374). 2015

, disruption, and adaptation. While all three mechanisms can be present concurrently, age at immigration influences their relative …

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Immigrants and demography : marriage, divorce, and fertility

Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2014

This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines...

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Immigrants and Demography : Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility

Adserà, Alícia - 2014

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Integration of ethnic minorities : do they divorce as natives do?

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Bonke, Jens - 2016

We investigate the divorce patterns among non‐Western immigrants and natives in Denmark. We focus on marriages entered … on or after arrival to Denmark and analyze whether inter‐ethnic marriages result in higher divorce rates and whether … divorce behavior differs between first- and second‐generation immigrants and native couples. We show that inter‐ethnic couples …

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Integration of Ethnic Minorities : Do They Divorce as Natives Do?

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2016

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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants' religiosity ; a comparative study of Europe and the United States

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013

This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...

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From immigrants to Americans: race and assimilation during the Great Migration

Fouka, Vasiliki; Mazumder, Shom; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the US South to Northern urban centers, which were...

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Immigration shocks and shifting social group boundaries

Hessami, Zohal; Schirner, Sebastian - 2024

We study whether the arrival of a new immigrant wave changes natives' acceptance of former immigrants and their descendants. We exploit the 2015 European refugee crisis and the context of German open-list local council elections where voting for immigrant-origin candidates represents a...

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Ethnic identification, intermarriage, and unmeasured progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian (contributor); Trejo, Stephen J. (contributor) - 2005

Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...

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Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions

Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2006

Despite a longstanding belief that education importantly affects the process of immigrant assimilation, little is known about the relative importance of different mechanisms linking these two processes. This paper explores this issue through an examination of the effects of human capital on one...

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