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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Will You Assimilate Me? Intermarriage and Economic Assimilation for Immigrants in Norway

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Because of its presumed indicative and predictive relationship to social integration processes, rates and trends of intermarriage have been widely studied by social scientists throughout the 20th century, in recent decades followed by studies of the deter minants of intermarriage. Much of this research has assumed that spouse selection is intimately linked to labor market assimilation. Still, there have been few efforts to study the effects of intermarriage, and evidence concerning its consequences for eco nomic assimilation is recent and ambiguous. This backdrop constitutes the rationale of this research mobility project. Benefiting from Norwegian register data, the project will provide novel evidence on the relationship between social integration and lab or market assimilation among immigrants and their descendants in Norway. One scientific article will compare the two principal methods applied in the literature to identify the causal effect of intermarriage on labor outcomes. Another scientific article w ill investigate the mechanisms through which this relationship is established more concretely. Both of these works will be greatly facilitated by a stay at UC Berkeley, particularly through collaboration with leading scholars in the areas of quantitative sociology, integration and stratification research. In addition to the publication of these articles in high-quality journals, the objectives of the mobility project include presentations at specific prestigious conferences (ASA and PAA), participation i n the Departmental Colloquium Series at UC Berkeley, and both improving a working research network and generate new routes of cooperation between quantitative sociologists in Oslo and Berkeley. The project will pioneer analyses of spouse selection and e conomic assimilation using quantitative methods and Norwegian register data, and will provide important knowledge relevant to current concerns and debates over integration, immigration and labor market policies.

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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada