Drawing on secondary literature, this paper first identifies trends in Jewish religious intermarriage Canada—including variation over time, gender, age and community size. It then critically examines results from the 2018 Survey of Jews Canada to explore factors associated with intermarriage. Binary logistic regression demonstrates that is significantly independently residing cities other than ...

Abstract This paper examines how changes in household-level risk sharing affect the marriage market. We use as our laboratory a German unemployment insurance (UI) reform that tightened means-testing based on partner’s income. The reduced generosity of UI increased demand for sharing, which lowered attractiveness individuals exposed to risk. Because correlates with non-German nationality, main f...

Intermarriage is of great interest to analysts because a group's tendency to partner across ethnic boundaries is usually seen as a key indicator of the social distance between groups in a multiethnic society. Theories of intermarriage as a key indicator of integration are, however, typically premised upon the union of white and nonwhite individuals, and we know very little about what happens in...

Review of Mercédesz Czimbalmos's Intermarriage, Conversion and Jewish Identity in Contemporary Finland. A Study Vernacular Religion the Finnish Communities (Åbo Akademi University).

Spatial separation of racial and ethnic groups may reduce the probability that mutually acceptable singles of di¤erent races meet each other in the marriage market, or it may have no e¤ect if market participants segments themselves. I …nd that people in more segregated cities are signi…cantly less likely to end up in a racially mixed marriage. I control for reverse causality and endogenous migr...

Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market. Using the 2010 American Community Survey, ...

Theorizing on segmented assimilation has usefully spurred debate about the experiences and positions of the second generation in the US and, more recently, Europe. This theory has focused primarily on how young people fare in secondary school and the crucial role that families and ethnic social networks can play in supporting second-generation individuals. But what happens when young people lea...