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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives

Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005- 2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...

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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2014

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows

Furtado, Delia - 2014

While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...

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Does immigration improve quality of care in nursing homes?

Furtado, Delia; Ortega, Francesc - 2020

The growing healthcare needs of baby boomers require significant increases in the number or productivity of healthcare workers. This paper explores how immigrants may fill these gaps in nursing homes. First, we show that immigrant inflows are associated with reduced wages of lower skilled nurses...

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Interethnic Marriage: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through which education affects marriage choice. First,...

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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women

Furtado, Delia - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) April, pp. 1-10

Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be … threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is … affected by the difficulty of combining work and family. New research suggests immigration lowers the cost of household …

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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Furtado, Delia - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2015

analysis of the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigration. …

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Interethnic marriage: a choice between ethnic and educational similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - In: Journal of Population Economics 24 (2011) 4, pp. 1257-1279

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Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects

Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Immigrants who marry outside of their ethnicity tend to have better economic outcomes than those who marry within ethnicity. It is difficult, however, to interpret this relationship because individuals with stronger preferences for ethnic endogamy are likely to differ in unobserved ways from...

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Low Skilled Immigration and Work-Fertility Tradeoffs Among High Skilled US Natives.

Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

This article examines the impact of low skilled immigration on the childbearing and labor supply decisions of high … attributable to immigrant workers arises due to reductions in cost of childrearing. Whereas most immigration research focuses on … the reduced employment prospects of natives, this paper considers the potential benefits of immigration to high skilled …

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