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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20379| Title: | Interethnic Marriages and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants |
| Keywords: | J12 J61 ddc:330 interethnic marriage economic assimilation self-selection Migranten Ehe Soziale Integration Ethnische Gruppe Multikulturell Schätzung Vereinigte Staaten |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | This paper examines the relationship between interethnic marriages and economic assimilation among immigrants in the United States. Two competing hypotheses are evaluated: the productivity hypothesis, according to which immigrants married to native-born spouses assimilate faster than comparable immigrants married to foreign-born spouses because spouses play an integral role in the human capital accumulation of their partners; and the selection hypothesis, according to which the relationship between intermarriages and assimilation is spurious because intermarried immigrants are a selected subsample from the population of all married immigrants. These two hypotheses are analyzed within a model in which earnings of immigrants and their interethnic marital status are jointly determined. The empirical evidence favors the selection hypothesis. Non-intermarried immigrants tend to be negatively selected, and the intermarriage premium obtained by the least squares completely vanishes once we account for the selection. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20379 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20379 ppn:386978700 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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