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A longitudinal study of migration propensities for mixed ethnic unions in England and Wales
Feng, Zhiqiang; van Ham, Maarten; Boyle, Paul; 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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Pre-hire factors and workplace ethnic segregation
Strömgren, Magnus; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2011
natives in their current workplace. The study is based on Swedish population register data. The results show that at the macro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235544
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Ethnic Intermarriage Among Immigrants : Human Capital and Assortative Mating
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina - 2021
measure of the marriage market by using data from several Censuses. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324930
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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?
Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018
This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803329
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Mismatch in the graduate labour market among immigrants and second-generation ethnic minority groups
Byrne, Delma; McGuinness, Séamus - 2009
This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrant and ethnic minority graduates from UK universities. The paper empirically demonstrates that immigrant and second-generation ethnic minority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880545
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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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I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job : Marital Assimilation and Immigrant Employment Rates
Furtado, Delia - 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/10012765216
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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity
Constant, Amelie F. - 2014
Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061052
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Ethnic concentration and extreme right-wing voting behavior in West Germany
Dill, Verena - 2013
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and administrative data from 1996 to 2009, I investigate the question whether or not right-wing extremism of German residents is affected by the ethnic concentration of foreigners living in the same residential area. My results show a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775716
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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