This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply …

household, but has no sizable effect on hours worked. Most of these effects are driven by less educated women. A new … decomposition analysis allows us to estimate that approximately half of the impact on labor force participation is due to women …

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …

Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend … of the women surveyed spend more time on housework than before. In contrast, the amount of time men devote to housework …