TY - JOUR
T1 - The Effects of Intermarriage on Wages for Immigrant Women in Italy
AU - Justiniano Medina, Adda Carla
AU - Valentova, Marie
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - intermarriage wage premium
KW - immigration
KW - selection bias
KW - instrumental variables
KW - Heckman sample correction
KW - combined method
KW - immigrants’ integration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116316877&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/aa94c3ca-b30d-3c0d-b248-2e122b69a9ae/
U2 - 10.1177/0192513X211046262
DO - 10.1177/0192513X211046262
M3 - Article
SN - 0192-513X
VL - 44
SP - 264
EP - 285
JO - Journal of Family Issues
JF - Journal of Family Issues
IS - 1
ER -