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Culture, intermarriage, and differentials in second-generation immigrant women's labor supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282285
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Returns to foreign education: yet another but different cross country analysis
Gruetter, Max - 2005
The main interest of this paper is to compare the value of education systems of different countries. For this reason I use data on workers who have completed their education before immigrating to Switzerland to estimate a country specific return to education. I estimate the standard...
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The effects of 9/11 on attitudes toward immigration and the moderating role of education
Schüller, Simone - 2012
immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and …
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Age at migration and social integration
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
particular at the marriage market. We also find some effects on educational attainment, employment rates and wages, although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269096
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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 …
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Does culture affect divorce decisions? Evidence from European immigrants in the US
Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2011
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...
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A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration
Euwals, Rob; Roodenburg, Hans - 2003
In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated … level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the … the immigration surplus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261625
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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Variables for the proportion of immigrants in … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262281
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Immigration: The New Zealand Experience
Winkelmann, Rainer - 1999
A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262286
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The Immigrant Welfare Effect: Take-Up or Eligibility?
Bird, Edward J.; Kayser, Hilke; Frick, Joachim R.; … - 1999
for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262289