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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226782
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence; Papps, Kerry L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714520
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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775210
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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010586207
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Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ball, Laurence; Hofstetter, Marc; Roux, Nicolás De - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural population and that the effects of government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226779
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The NAIRU in Theory and Practice
Ball, Laurence; Mankiw, N. Gregory - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
This paper discusses the NAIRU -- the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment. It first considers the role of the NAIRU concept in business cycle theory, arguing that this concept is implicit in any model in which monetary policy influences both inflation and unemployment. The exact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829454
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Hysteresis in Unemployment: Old and New Evidence
Ball, Laurence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper argues that hysteresis helps explain the long-run behavior of unemployment. The natural rate of unemployment is influenced by the path of actual unemployment, and hence by shifts in aggregate demand. I review past evidence for hysteresis effects and present new evidence for 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829543
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Okun's Law: Fit at Fifty?
Ball, Laurence; Loungani, Prakash; Leigh, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper asks how well Okun's Law fits short-run unemployment movements in the United States since 1948 and in twenty advanced economies since 1980. We find that Okun's Law is a strong and stable relationship in most countries, one that did not change substantially during the Great Recession....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796591