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 …

country and provide business contacts. However, intermarriage may not be the driving factor of economic success but instead be … likelihood of meeting natives. Intermarriage might also be more "suspense-packed" (positively and negatively) and can thus be …

the value that intermarriage generates for their husbands. Such a "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 other …

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 …