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Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …
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questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional data sets. We demonstrate that having such actual experience data is … important for analyzing women's post-school human capital accumulation, residual wage inequality, and the gender pay gap …
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relatively high levels of female labor supply work more in the United States. Moreover, most of this effect remains when we … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant’s own pre-migration labor supply. The … negative interaction effects between previous work experience and source country female labor supply on women's US work hours …
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supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with …
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fallen to 17th. We find that the expansion of "family-friendly" policies including parental leave and part-time work … other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US … women are more likely than women in other countries to have full time jobs and to work as managers or professionals. …
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fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …
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Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source …country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico …
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Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Women's relative earnings are harmed by...
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