Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects

Delia Furtado and Stephen Trejo

No 6399, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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 those with weaker preferences. To clarify some of the complex issues surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds with an examination of the economic consequences of intermarriage, and ends with a discussion of the links between intermarriage, ethnic identification, and measurement of long-term socioeconomic integration.

Keywords: immigration; intermarriage; ethnicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2012-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 15, 276-292

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