Showing 1 - 6 of 6
language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability … squares model. Among other relevant variables, the analysis controls for the colonial heritage of the immigrant’s country of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149274
. Extensions of the HCEF in the 1970s and early 1980s account for interrupted labor marker experience, geographic mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
Using longitudinal data on immigrants in the Netherlands fromthe survey 'Social Position and Use of Public Facilities … by Immigrants' (SPVA) for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language … mastery of the Dutch language enhance immigrants'economic performances. The effects are much stronger for immigrants with low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144572
This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164106
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among … married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community Surveys. Among immigrants, better job opportunities, measured by … live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female’s role, and lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239377