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Ethnic attrition, assimilation, and the measured health outcomes of Mexican Americans

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2020

The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...

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Integration of Ethnic Minorities : Do They Divorce as Natives Do?

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 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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Marriage before children? : first family formation among the children of immigrants in Norway

Holland, Jennifer A.; Wiik, Kenneth Aa. - 2021

Differences in the timing and pathway into family life provide insights into the social distance between majority and … group distinctions. We situate our study in Norway, a country on the forefront of family change with an increasingly diverse … evidence of generational shifts in the propensity to form a family via a nonmarital first birth, however, in some context …

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Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Wang, … - 2019

This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of interior immigration enforcement...

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Linguistic diversity in the classroom, student achievement, and social integration

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2018

Effekt des Anteils an Migranten in der Klasse oder Schule untersuchen, konzentrieren wir uns auf die sprachliche …

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Immigrant concentration in schools : consequences for native and migrant students

Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013

In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...

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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children

Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2009

A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...

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Interethnic Marriages and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants

Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2021

This paper examines the relationship between interethnic marriages and economic assimilation among immigrants in the United States. Two competing hypotheses are evaluated: the productivity hypothesis, according to which immigrants married to native-born spouses assimilate faster than comparable...

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Determinants of Integration and its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants : A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin

Danzer, Alexander M.; Ulku, Hulya - 2021

Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and education have positive impact, while networks have no impact on integration. There is strong...

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Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...

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