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positive impact of immigration on native men's employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of …In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US … aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration …
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This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …, low-educated native workers experience employment losses due to immigration, whereas high-educated ones are more likely to …
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This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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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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Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
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