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We find differential rates of cohabitation with adult relatives as well as differential impacts of that cohabitation on the probability of employment for married female immigrants across regions of origin. This suggests that traditions and/or cultural determinants of family structure influence...
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the host country. With regard to marriage we focus on the determinants of intermarriage, the stability of these unions …This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration … depend greatly on the age at migration and on the cultural norms immigrants bring with them and their distance to those of …
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religious intermarriage and assimilation are reviewed. A concluding section forecasts the future of American Judaism and Jewish … ; intermarriage …
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can be explained by increases in the returns to a college education. However, we find increasing intermarriage premiums …
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by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native …
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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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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
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all-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women but … a price for the value that intermarriage generates for their husbands. Such 'male dominance' scenario also helps explain … why immigrant men married to native daughters of immigrants from the same region get more benefits from intermarriage than …
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It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family is correlated with lower educational attainment....
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A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in education and employment. As of yet, mainstream economics has not dealt in any systematic way with this phenomenon and its implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a...
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