Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation: Earnings Premiums Among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives

Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao

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“…The intermarriage rate is a two-way indicator of social integration. On the one hand, it indicates the acceptance of the immigrant population by the host society; on the other hand, it demonstrates the level of immigrants’ acceptance of the native population (among others, see Alba & Golden, 1986; Dribe & Lundh, 2008; Dribe & Nystedt, 2009; Furtado & Song, 2014; Furtado & Theodoropoulos, 2009; Gevrek, 2009; Kantarevic, 2004; Nekby, 2010). However, intermarriage does not solely indicate the degree of integration.…”

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“…The results may vary due to the different stock of immigrants; however, the number of studies that address the issue of an intermarriage wage premium among women—accounting simultaneously for selection into employment and selection into intermarriage—is limited (for an exception, see Meng & Meurs, 2009). From a geographical perspective, literature dealing with an intermarriage wage premium has focused on Northern and Western European countries, such as Sweden (Dribe & Lundh, 2008; Dribe & Nystedt, 2009; Nekby, 2010), the Netherlands (Gevrek, 2009), Germany (Nottmeyer, 2010), and France (Meng & Meurs, 2009); or other continents, including the U.S. (Furtado & Song, 2014; Kantarevic, 2004) and Australia (Meng & Gregory, 2005).…”

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The Effects of Intermarriage on Wages for Immigrant Women in Italy

Medina

Valentová

2021

Journal of Family Issues

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In the current article, we analyze the impact of intermarriage on the wages of immigrant women in Italy. Using a sample of married immigrant women from a randomly selected sample, representative of families with foreigners in Italy, we estimate Ordinary Least Squares and we address self-selection into employment, while simultaneously accounting for intermarriage endogeneity with the combined method. The results reveal 9 percentage points higher earnings for intermarried immigrant women. However, this vanishes once we add other characteristics, as well as when we account for endogeneity and selection into employment, separately and simultaneously. We conclude that although immigrant women who marry natives have higher wages, this is due to their observable and unobservable characteristics.

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