From: Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants: differences by gender
 | Married male immigrants | Married female immigrants | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Immigrant wife | Native wife | Immigrant husband | Native husband | |
Percentage | 75.68 | 24.32 | 72.31 | 27.69 |
Weekly market hours | 39.79 | 41.02 | 25.15 | 27.94 |
(13.78) | (15.13) | (19.42) | (19.06) | |
Years of education | 12.3 | 13.69 | 12.31 | 14.68 |
(4.86) | (3.95) | (4.46) | (3.15) | |
Age | 42.46 | 41.73 | 40.5 | 40.64 |
(9.65) | (10.72) | (9.77) | (10.53) | |
% with good English | 46.99 | 79.72 | 47.19 | 86.08 |
(49.99) | (40.21) | (49.92) | (34.62) | |
Years in USA | 23.09 | 27.97 | 22.6 | 27.52 |
(10.44) | (13.88) | (10.96) | (13.62) | |
Lives in a metro | 93.73 | 89.33 | 94.18 | 91.09 |
(24.24) | (30.88) | (23.42) | (28.49) | |
In school | 4.15 | 5.77 | 6.26 | 9.07 |
(19.95) | (23.31) | (24.23) | (28.72) | |
Marriage and spouse characteristics | ||||
Age of marriage | 27.42 | 27.07 | 26.28 | 26.17 |
(6.24) | (5.65) | (6.28) | (5.62) | |
Marriage duration | 14.04 | 14.66 | 14.23 | 14.47 |
(9.44) | (11.03) | (9.92) | (11.09) | |
No. of children | 1.77 | 1.5 | 1.74 | 1.33 |
(1.26) | (1.26) | (1.26) | (1.19) | |
Spouse market hours | 23.13 | 27.61 | 39.03 | 41.18 |
(19.73) | (18.61) | (14.36) | (14.88) | |
Spouse education | 12.29 | 14.39 | 12.26 | 14.94 |
(4.61) | (2.92) | (4.73) | (3.13) | |
Spouse age | 39.49 | 39.41 | 42.76 | 42.42 |
(9.65) | (10.12) | (10.21) | (10.82) | |
N | 25,637 | 8238 | 19,462 | 7451 |