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 … migration, as well as how female migrants affect families and labor markets in both source and destination communities …

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 …

, but potentially important, spillover effect of enforcement policies: changes in high-skilled citizen women's labor supply … in intensity of immigration enforcement in a local area reduced the labor supply of citizen college- educated women with … increase in the wages of household workers, and 3) we see no similar effects for high-skilled men or women without children …

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It … among women by nativity, urbanization, and region of the country. While foreign-born and illiterate women were more likely … greater the slave-intensity of the county, the less likely were free women to report having an occupation, particularly as …

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger immigrant inflows. Most interestingly, these changes have been …-used measure of the difficulty with which women combine motherhood and labor market work. Using a structured statistical model, I …

the importance of this selection bias in the French labor market, where women accounted for a rapidly increasing share of … wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …

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

Women contribute disproportionately to household production, especially in Southern European countries. As a …-production services. Immigrant labor has increasingly become a substitute for women labor in those services. Their presence, therefore …, may allow women over 55 to work more outside of the house and retire later. We use a unique database of Italian households …

Historical, longitudinal data are used to track the earnings of cohorts of immigrant and U.S.-born women over time. The …