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Assortative mating and divorce: evidence from Austrian register data
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009
in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271320
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262556
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Immigration and the occupational choice of natives: A factor proportions approach
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962-1999. Combining large (up to 25%) extracts from six censuses and data from Labor Force Surveys, we exploit the variation in the immigrant share across education/experience cells...
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Brides for sale: Cross-border marriages and female immigration
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Soohyung - 2012
importation: the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286887
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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? Labor market effects of immigrant legalization
Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph - 2010
Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269852
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H-1Bs: How do they stack up to US born workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus; Hayes, Joseph - 2011
Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the 2009 American Community Survey, we analyze earnings differences between H-1B visa holders and US born workers in STEM occupations. The data indicate that H-1Bs are younger and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282139
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Interethnic marriage: a choice between ethnic and educational similarities
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2008
which education affects marriage choice. First, educated people may be better able to adapt to different cultures making …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268601
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I'll marry you if you get me a job: marital assimilation and immigrant employment rates
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 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/10010269277
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Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children
Furtado, Delia - 2009
by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269322
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Substitution between individual and cultural capital: Pre-migration labor supply, culture and US labor market outcomes among immigrant woman
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278821