Showing 1 - 6 of 6
We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223319
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226782
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends in occupational segregation by sex for the 1970-2009...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227920
Economics Association. To our knowledge, this is the first randomized trial of a mentoring program in academia. We evaluate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627149
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714520
Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor supply of second generation women (US-born women with at least one foreign-born parent) are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's levels of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775210