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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by … focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on factor prices and … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227178
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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509636
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199826