Interethnic marriages and economic assimilation of immigrants
By: by Jasmin Kantarevic.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1142; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1142
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Interethnic marriage -- United States.; Assimilation (Sociology) -- United States.; Immigrants -- United States.
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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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