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Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The … the intermarriage decision. …
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We study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 … to marry, have kids, and leave the parental house earlier. Our evidence suggests that the positive impact of immigration … on native men’s employment, which increased the supply of native “marriageable men”, contributed to generate these …
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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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the value that intermarriage generates for their husbands. Such a "male dominance" scenario also helps explain why … immigrant men married to native daughters of immigrants from the same region get more benefits from intermarriage than other …
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a price for the value that intermarriage generates for their husbands. Such 'male dominance' scenario also helps explain … why immigrant men married to native daughters of immigrants from the same region get more benefits from intermarriage than …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration …
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can be explained by increases in the returns to a college education. However, we find increasing intermarriage premiums …
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disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration …
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the intermarriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; employment ; immigration …Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …
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hand, intermarriage reduces the chance of starting up a business possibly because better access to local networks can help … transitions into other forms of employment (e.g. paid employment). On the other hand, superior access to local networks through …
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