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We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the home-country earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the home-country earnings of the secondary...
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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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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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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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This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...
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Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not...
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