surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds … with an examination of the economic consequences of intermarriage, and ends with a discussion of the links between … intermarriage, ethnic identification, and measurement of long-term socioeconomic integration …

hand, intermarriage reduces the chance of starting up a business possibly because better access to local networks can help … transitions into other forms of employment (e.g. paid employment). On the other hand, superior access to local networks through …

probability of immigrant employment. We start by confirming in both least squares and instrumental variables frameworks that … marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … relationship between marriage decisions and employment …

-intermarried immigrants tend to be negatively selected, and the intermarriage premium obtained by the least squares completely vanishes once …

variable is intermarriage across ethnic groups and the inclusion of the explanatory variables is justified by a simple rational … post-migration marriages can be identified. Results show that the probability of intermarriage increases the longer a … measure of the marriage market by using data from several Censuses. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio …