This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …

find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to …

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 …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …

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 …

We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in … and allow agents to trade home labor. This model can generate the observed patterns in US labor supply by gender and …

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. …