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Title: Why Does Intermarriage Increase Immigrant Employment? The Role of Networks

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Social networks are commonly understood to play a large role in the labor marketsuccess of immigrants. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access tonative networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the probability of immigrantemployment. We start by confirming in both least squares and instrumental variablesframeworks that marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, weshow that the returns to marrying a native are not likely to arise solely from legal status acquiredthrough marriage or characteristics of native spouses. We then present several pieces of evidencesuggesting that networks obtained through marriage play an important part in explaining therelationship between marriage decisions and employment.

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Authors: Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos

Conference Name: Population Association of America

Publisher Location: Dallas, TX

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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