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 …

women and men during US economic development. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, female and male BMIs … weights heavier than workers in other occupations. Women and men from the Northeast and Middle Atlantic had higher BMIs and …

Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …