research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …

Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia … importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage … for educated women. We provide empirical evidence supporting our theoretical model and its implications, using datasets …

increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …

," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for … understand the likelihood of women migrating if they participate in a CCT program, issues of selectivity, endogeneity, and … contemplating migration encourages women to accept CCT. And if a household perspective is brought to bear, then a household's free …

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 …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …

into account the fact that women still face an unequal access to tertiary education in many less developed countries, it … appears that women are over-represented in the brain drain. This result is reinforced by econometric estimates showing that … emigration of highly skilled women is higher, the poorer is their country of origin. This effect is also observed for men but to …

childcare industry, this paper examines whether college-educated native women respond to immigrant-induced lower cost and … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … graduate degree. Given that women also respond to immigrant inflows by working long hours, the paper ends with an analysis of …