assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor …

We use Census of Population microdata for 1980 and 1990 to examine the labor supply and wages of immigrant husbands and … model in which, upon arrival, immigrant husbands invest in their human capital while immigrant wives work to provide the … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to … culture and norms in affecting immigrant women's labor supply, since the effect of source country female labor supply on … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …

by the immigrant generation's levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from … transmission of gender roles. Transmission rates for immigrant fertility and labor supply between generations are higher than for …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …'s behavior in the United States—looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia … source countries were found to have very similar unadjusted fertility to native-born women. The small immigrant … and to native-born women with similar personal characteristics (a relatively high fertility group in the U.S.). Immigrant …

recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …