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Immigrants and demography : marriage, divorce, and fertility

Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2014

the host country. With regard to marriage we focus on the determinants of intermarriage, the stability of these unions …

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Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010

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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Integration of ethnic minorities : do they divorce as natives do?

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Bonke, Jens - 2016

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...

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How do marital status, wage rates, and work commitment interact?

Ahituv, Avner (contributor); … - 2005

How marriage interacts with men's earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly encourage healthy marriages. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the linkages between marriage, work commitment, and wage...

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Anthropometry of Love - Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages

Belot, Michèle - 2011

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We...

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Assortative Mating and Divorce : Evidence from Austrian Register Data

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2009

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Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status : Evidence from North Indian Villages

Bhattacharya, Manasi - 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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Immigrant Self-Employment : Does Intermarriage Matter?

Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2009

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

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Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2020

This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to …, importantly, sheds light on the recent growth of intermarriage among Mexican immigrants …

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Human Capital and Interethnic Marriage Decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2006

examination of the effects of human capital on one dimension of assimilation, immigrant intermarriage. I argue that there are … three primary mechanisms through which human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. First, human capital may make … human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. Further support for the model is provided by deriving and testing …

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