Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … education, native spouses supply more market labor. Intermarriage may also skew bargaining power in favor of native husbands in …

Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …

In this paper, I assess the employment and income effect of divorce for women in West Germany between 2000 and 2005 …. With newly available administrative data that allows me to adopt a causal approach, I find strong negative employment … effects with respect to marginal employment and strong positive effects with respect to regular employ-ment. However, in sum …

births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This …

Peri and Yasenov (2019) exploit a natural experiment, the Mariel boatlift of 1980, to analyse the impact of immigration …

Spouse's relative labor supply and the degree of specialization in intermarriage might differ from that in immigrant …-neutral specialization index. Results indicate that for immigrants intermarriage is indeed related to less specialization, as is similar …, on the other hand, the likelihood to specialize increases with intermarriage. This might result from differences in …

demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …