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Endogamous marriage among immigrant groups : the impact of deportations under secure communities

Bansak, Cynthia; Pearlman, Sarah - 2021

We investigate the impact of removals under the Secure Communities (SC) program on the marriage patterns of immigrant women living in the U.S. where endogamous marriage is the dominant form of partnership. We focus on enforcement by MSA and country of origin and find evidence that deportations...

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Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions

Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 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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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 …

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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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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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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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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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Ethnic identification, intermarriage, and unmeasured progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian (contributor); Trejo, Stephen J. (contributor) - 2005

capital selectivity of Mexican intermarriage generates corresponding differences in the employment and earnings of Mexican … measures of intergenerational progress for Mexican Americans. -- intermarriage ; Mexican American ; intergenerational progress …

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Preferences vs. Opportunities : Racial/Ethnic Intermarriage in the United States

Shin, Seul-ki - 2014

, non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics in the United States. Results indicate that the observed infrequency of intermarriage is …

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