Ethnic intermarriage among immigrants: human capital and assortative mating
Ethnic intermarriage among immigrants: human capital and assortative mating
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DOI：
10.1007/s11150-010-9099-9
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发表时间：
2011-06-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Houseworth, Christina
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作者：
Chiswick, Barry R.;Houseworth, Christina
本文分析了美国移民跨种族婚姻的决定因素。因变量是跨族裔群体的通婚(根据血统和出生国)，纳入解释变量的理由是一个简单的理性选择经济模型。二项Logistic回归使用1980年美国人口普查的数据进行估计，这是可以确定移民后婚姻的最后一次人口普查。结果表明，移民在美国居住的时间越长，到达美国的年龄越小，通婚的可能性就越大。这两种关系都可以归因于美国特有的人力资本的积累和种族特有的人力资本的侵蚀。种族间的婚姻更有可能发生在教育水平相近的个人之间，这提供了移民教育带来的积极的种类交配的证据。使用几次人口普查的数据，根据一个人所居住的群体和群体规模，构建潜在配偶的“可获得性比率”，为婚姻市场提供了一种衡量标准。通婚的比例越大，自己的群体规模越大，通婚就越少。移民的母语与英语的语言距离间接衡量了抵达时英语水平的影响，并被发现是通婚的显着负面预测因素。那些报告有多个祖先的人和之前结过婚的人更有可能通婚。
This paper analyzes the determinants of interethnic marriages by immigrants in the United States. The dependent variable is intermarriage across ethnic groups (on the basis of ancestry and country of birth) and the inclusion of the explanatory variables is justified by a simple rational choice economic model. A binomial logistic regression is estimated using data from the 1980 US Census, the last Census where post-migration marriages can be identified. Results show that the probability of intermarriage increases the longer a migrant resides in the U.S. and the younger the age at arrival. Both relationships can be attributable to the accumulation of US-specific human capital and an erosion of ethnic-specific human capital. Inter-ethnic marriages are more likely between individuals with similar education levels, providing evidence of positive assortative mating by education for immigrants. The construction of the "availability ratio" for potential spouses from one's own group and group size where one lives using data from several Censuses provides a the measure of the marriage market. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio and the larger the size of one's own group. Linguistic distance of the immigrant's mother tongue from English indirectly measures the effect of English language proficiency at arrival and is found to be a significant negative predictor of intermarriage. Those who report multiple ancestries and who were previously married are more likely to intermarry.