I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job: Marital Assimilation and Immigrant Employment Rates

Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

No 3951, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed. Results from an ordinary least squares model controlling for the usual measures of human capital and immigrant assimilation suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The estimated impact of marriage to a native increases to 11 percentage points in models which take into account the endogeneity of the intermarriage decision.

Keywords: immigration; employment; intermarriage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2009-01
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Published - published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 116-126

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