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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388335
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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624916
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Accumulation of human and market capital in the United States, 1975-2012 : an analysis by gender
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S. - 2019
This paper covers a continuous and longer time period than previously possible to examine human and market capital because of research by Christian (2017). This paper focuses on the presentation and analysis of trends in human capital by gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019259
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Spatial distribution of US employment in an urban wage-efficiency setting
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016
In this paper, we analyze the spatial distribution of US employment and earnings against an urban wage … relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly … concentrated in metropolitan cores, and that earnings increase with "expected" commuting time, which gives empirical support to our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452224
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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955833
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Substitution between individual and cultural capital : pre-migration labor supply, culture and US labor market outcomes among immigrant woman
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011
country female labor supply. We obtain broadly similar effects analyzing the determinants of hourly earnings among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311482
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The opt-out revolution : a descriptive analysis
Antecol, Heather - 2010
Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 US Census, I find little support for the opt-out revolution - highly educated women, relative to their less educated counterparts, are exiting the labor force to care for their families at higher rates today than in earlier time periods - if one focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780034
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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
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198461
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It's where you work : increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the US
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - 2014
earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403444
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532