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, disruption, and adaptation. While all three mechanisms can be present concurrently, age at immigration influences their relative …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250042
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057911
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452238
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999011
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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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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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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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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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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