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index. Results indicate that for immigrants intermarriage is indeed related to less specialization as is better education …. Natives, on the other hand, show different patterns: for them the likelihood to specialize increases with intermarriage. This …
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the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … intermarried families stresses the importance of intermarriage in assimilation process. Our results are robust to different …
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In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting marital disruption on data from the nationally –...
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; whereas they fully confirm the intermarriage premium hypothesis for family migrants but only partially for refugees and labour … immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … and family migrants. We find that intermarried immigrants outperformed intramarried ones in employment rates and salaries …
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should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …
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hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …
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; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed … effects model is estimated separately for each marriage type to further disentangle a causal effect of intermarriage (intra-marriage …For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …
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religious intermarriage and assimilation are reviewed. A concluding section forecasts the future of American Judaism and Jewish …
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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 …
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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 … the same ethnicity. Finally, assortative matching on education in the marriage market suggests that immigrants may be …
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