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Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …—specialization differences, by type of marriage, are insignificant when the immigrant has post-college education. At lower levels of immigrant …
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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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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 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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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 … specifications and estimation strategies. -- culture ; labor supply ; immigrant women ; intermarriage …
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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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beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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An empirical approach to optimal income taxation design is developed within an equilibrium collective marriage market … model with imperfectly transferable utility. Taxes distort labour supply and time allocation decisions, as well as marriage …
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We propose a search-matching model of the marriage market that extends Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor … female wages. We estimate that the share of marriage surplus appropriated by the man increases with his wage and that the …
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This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....
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