how, in a country with a large fraction of migrants, marriage decisions respond to a change in the legal status of foreign … that acquiring citizenship not only increases the likelihood of marriage but also significantly boosts the formation of …Acquiring citizenship is associated with better economic and social opportunities for immigrants. This paper examines …

literature, we find that immigrants in Italy are less likely to be self-employed. The negative gap is confirmed when propensity … migrants and those coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, while it is not significant for mixed immigrant-native couples, for highly … skilled, and for migrants from Asia and Oceania. The largest gap is found for those working in the agricultural sector …

literature, we find that immigrants in Italy are less likely to be self-employed. The negative gap is confirmed when propensity … migrants and those coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, while it is not significant for mixed immigrant-native couples, for highly … skilled, and for migrants from Asia and Oceania. The largest gap is found for those working in the agricultural sector …

the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting …

the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting …

naturalized citizenship on marital status and spousal characteristics among Chinese immigrants in the United States. A series of U … card. We examine the effect of those policy changes on Chinese immigrants' marriage market outcomes relative to other East … spousal chain migration occurred. We also find that highly educated Chinese immigrants benefited in the marriage market in …

examination of the effects of human capital on one dimension of assimilation, immigrant intermarriage. I argue that there are … three primary mechanisms through which human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. First, human capital may make … the same ethnicity. Finally, assortative matching on education in the marriage market suggests that immigrants may be …