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 than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …

Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women's labor supply behavior from 1980 to … 1990s. Moreover, a major new development was that, during both decades, there was a dramatic reduction in women's own wage … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 …

confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women entrepreneurs have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to …, business training is positively associated with sales performance of men entrepreneurs, but has no effect on women. However …, this does not call for abolishing training programs for women entrepreneurs. Instead their design and targeting should be …

genders with higher start-up capital record better sales performance than those with smaller amounts of capital. For women … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources … than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native‐born women with time in the United States, and …

incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …

Women continue to be underrepresented in academic ranks in the economics profession. The Committee on the Status of … Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economics Association established the CeMENT mentoring workshop to support … women in research careers. The program was designed as a randomized controlled trial. This study evaluates differences …

Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the American … participants, the results suggest that this type of mentoring may be one way to help women advance in the Economics profession and …

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 variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from … the mother's source country generally larger than that of women from the father's source country and the effect of the …