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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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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This paper illustrates that the policy was rather...
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Business cycles and divorce: Evidence from microdata
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Morrill, Melinda Sandler; Zou, Ben - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 68-70
We use individual-level data to show that divorce is pro-cyclical on average, a finding robust to the inclusion of a … wide range of controls. Pro-cyclical divorce is concentrated among women who married young and/or do not have a college …
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Refugees welcome, but not in my backyard? : the impact of immigration on right-wing voting : evidence from Germany
Jasny, Johannes; Becker, Tilman - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1
This article studies whether immigration in voter's neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of Germany's major … small-scale immigration data, election data, and a set of socioeconomic factors. Our main finding states that the local … immigration boosted AFD votes but did not affect CDU votes directly. Instead, in regions that perceived immigration indirectly …
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America's settling down: How better jobs and falling immigration led to a rise in marriage, 1880–1930
Cvrcek, Tomas - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 3, pp. 335-351
affecting men. First, men's improving labor market prospects made them more attractive as marriage partners. Second, immigration …-run, as immigration declined, immigrants' descendants integrated with American society. This reduced search costs and …
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Latent earning capacity and the race marriage gap
Nakosteen, Robert A.; Zimmer, Michael A. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20
One of the most persistent socioeconomic phenomena in the process of family formation is the relatively low rate of marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative shortage of marriageable black men. Yet numerous studies...
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Chapter 3. The Adjustment of Immigrants in the Labor Market
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 105-182). 2015
This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...
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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
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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Refugees welcome, but not in my backyard? The impact of immigration on right-wing voting : evidence from Germany
Jasny, Johannes; Becker, Tilman - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20
This article studies whether immigration in voter's neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of Germany's major … small-scale immigration data, election data, and a set of socioeconomic factors. Our main finding states that the local … immigration boosted AFD votes but did not affect CDU votes directly. Instead, in regions that perceived immigration indirectly …
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An Empirical Study on the Migration Among Young Skilled and Creative People
Suciu, Marta-Christina; Florea, Cristina Andreea - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 19 (2017) 46, pp. 727-741
In the context of a knowledge and innovative-based society and economy, smart and creative cities are attracting an increasing number of young people, most of them being gifted, very talented students and high-skilled workforce, with multiple competences . These young people are pro-active and...
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