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Immigrant self-employment : does intermarriage matter?

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2009

hand, intermarriage reduces the chance of starting up a business possibly because better access to local networks can help …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884084

Marital violence and women's employment and property status : evidence from North Indian villages

Bhattacharya, Manasi; Bedi, Arjun Singh; Chhachhi, Amrita - 2009

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...

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Anthropometry of love - height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages

Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2009

couples. -- intermarriage ; gender ; height …

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Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital stability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be...

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Migration and loving

Gevrek, Deniz - 2010

This paper explores the relationship between anti-miscegenation laws, interracial marriage and black males' geographical distribution in the U.S. during and after the Great Migration. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Loving v. Virginia in 1967, which forced the last 16 Southern...

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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....

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Interethnic marriages and their economic effects

Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2012

surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds … with an examination of the economic consequences of intermarriage, and ends with a discussion of the links between … intermarriage, ethnic identification, and measurement of long-term socioeconomic integration. -- intermarriage ; immigration …

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A longitudinal study of migration propensities for mixed ethnic unions in England and Wales

Feng, Zhiqiang; Ham, Maarten van; Boyle, Paul J.; Raab, … - 2012

Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults live in couples. In recent years there has been a growth in the number of mixed ethnic unions that involve a minority member and a white member. To our knowledge, hardly any...

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Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009239693

Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity, religion and education are not responsible for the increasing marital instability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343921