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Kok, Suzanne; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … others require proximity. We construct a measure of task connectivity to investigate which tasks are more likely to require … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher …

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The Times They are A-Changin': Organizational Change and Immigrant Employment Opportunities in Scandinavia

Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is...

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Immigrants' Time Use: A Survey of Methods and Evidence

Ribar, David C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper discusses research questions related to immigrants' time use, reviews conceptual and methodological approaches to examining time allocations, and reviews evidence from previous studies. It provides new descriptive evidence, using time-diary data from the American Time Use Survey....

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Early Retirement and Financial Incentives: Differences Between High and Low Wage Earners

Euwals, Rob; Trevisan, Elisabetta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners. Using a stylized life-cycle model, we derive hypotheses on the behaviour of the two types. We use administrative data and employ a linear random effects model to test the...

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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States

Lozano, Fernando A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...

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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...

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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply

Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...

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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

Farré, Lídia; Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...

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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women: Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection

Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...

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The Effect of Filipino Overseas Migration on the Non-Migrant Spouse’s Market Participation and Labor Supply Behavior

Cabegin, Emily Christi A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines the effect of one partner’s overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner’s labor force participation and supply behavior. I compare the effect when the migrant partner is male and when she is female. The study uses merged 2003 data sets from the nationally...

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