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I'll marry you if you get me a job : marital assimilation and immigrant employment rates
Furtado, Delia (contributor);  … - 2009
Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796349
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
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Challenges to equality : poverty and race in America
Hartman, Chester W. (ed.) - 2001
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Iranian immigrants in Los Angeles : the role of networks and economic integration
Der-Martirosian, Claudia - 2008
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Italians then, Mexicans now : immigrant origins and second-generation progress, 1890 to 2000
Perlmann, Joel - 2005
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From immigrants to Americans : race and assimilation during the Great Migration
Fouka, Vasiliki; Mazumder, Shom; Tabellini, Marco - 2019
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From immigrants to Americans : race and assimilation during the Great Migration
Fouka, Vasiliki; Mazumder, Soumyajit; Tabellini, Marco - 2019
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 U.S. South to Northern urban centers, which were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013340
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
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/10012001498
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Trust beyond borders : immigration, the welfare state, and identity in modern societies
Crepaz, Markus Michael L. - 2008
not to belong : incorporation and integration policies in modern welfare states -- The politics of immigration and the … welfare state in Germany, Sweden, and the United States …
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Does intermarriage promote economic assimilation among immigrants in the United States?
Chi, Miao - In: International journal of manpower 36 (2015) 7, pp. 1034-1057
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