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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D. - 2011

United States. Importantly, we find a significantly negative interaction between pre-migration labor supply and source … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …

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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D. - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply 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...

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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The US and West Germany, 1984-91

Blau, Francine D. - 1997

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … relative to more highly educated youth in their own country, and also fare much worse than less educated German youth in … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …

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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes

Blau, Francine D. - 2012

We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills...

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The Fertility of Immigrant Women : Evidence from High Fertility Source Countries

Blau, Francine D. - 1991

Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of immigration to the U.S. Perhaps the most interesting...

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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. - 2020

traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …

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Labor Market Institutions and Demographic Employment Patterns

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2002

employment of youth, women, and older individuals. Theoretically, we show that labor market institutions meant to improve workers …

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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Outcomes : Lessons for the US from International Long-Run Evidence

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2001

We analyze a 1960-96 panel of OECD countries to explain why the US moved from relatively high to relatively low unemployment over the last three decades. We find that while macroeconomic and demographic shocks and changing labor market institutions explain a modest portion of this change, the...

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Understanding Young Women's Marriage Decisions : The Role of Labor and Marriage Market Conditions

Blau, Francine D. - 2000

Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is regressed on personal characteristics and MSA indicators,...

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