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Assortative Mating and Divorce : Evidence from Austrian Register Data

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 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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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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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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Racial Differences in Transitions to Marriage for Unmarried Mothers

Daniels, Gerald - 2019

Unlike prior studies that have explained racial differences in the transitions to marriage among unmarried women, our study uses the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine racial differences in the transitions to marriage among unmarried women following a non-marital birth. We...

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Hating and Mating : Fears over Mate Competition and Violent Hate Crime against Refugees

Dancygier, Rafaela M. - 2019

As the number of refugees rises across the world, anti-refugee violence has become a pressing concern. What explains the incidence and support of such hate crime? We argue that fears among native men that refugees pose a threat in the competition for female partners is a critical but...

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Is This Any Way to Make Civil Rights Law? Judicial Extension of 'Marital Status' Nondiscrimination to Protect Cohabitants

Alvare, Helen M. - 2019

In recent years, civil rights legislation has been the subject of significant attention. In part, this is due to the emergence of novel and contested interpretations of longstanding statutes offering protection against discrimination based upon sex and marital status. Courts and agencies are...

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The Role of Own-Group Density and Local Social Norms for Ethnic Marital Sorting : Evidence from the UK

Vickery, Alexander - 2019

We present a structural marriage market model where individuals differ in ethnicity and qualifications, and where marital choices are affected by social conformity preferences. The model is estimated using White, Black and Asian individuals born in the UK between 1965 and 1989, and is identified...

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Marriage and Divorce : The Role of Labor Market Institutions

Schulz, Bastian - 2020

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the social insurance system, which acts as a substitute for within-household insurance against economic shocks. In this paper, we quantify the importance of household-level insurance...

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Education, Spatial Disparities in Schooling and Black-White Interracial Marriage

Gevrek, Deniz - 2020

the low black-white intermarriage rate puzzle by suggesting that as black and white educational differences in general …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … than the racial adaptability effect in explaining intermarriage probability of black males. Our results suggest that rising …

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