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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.

Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019

This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...

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The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022

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...

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Women at work in the pre-civil war United States : an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020

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...

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Women at work in the United States since 1860 : an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2021

Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...

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Does paid family leave save infant lives? : evidence from United States

Chen, Feng - 2021

One goal of the paid family leave (PFL) is to help working mothers balance their careers and family responsibilities and hence improve the well-being of their infants. However, most studies of PFL on early childhood outcomes have been based on the analyses of surviving infants. If PFL reduces...

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023

Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following … individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the … 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, immigrant women, as previously found for immigrant men, have high earnings growth. …

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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US

Zhan, Crystal - 2020

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...

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The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA

Larsen, Nicholas; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019

language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … model and their labor market earnings using the human capital earnings function that is estimated with an ordinary least … earnings, and those from countries with a greater concentration of Catholic missionaries exhibit lower levels of both, compared …

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Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the United States, 1960-2020

Myers, Caitlin K. - 2022

An expansive empirical literature estimates the causal effects of policies governing young women's confidential and legal access to contraception and abortion. I present a new review of changes in the historical policy environment in the United States that serve as the foundation of this work. I...

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The fertility effect of laws granting undocumented migrants access to driving licenses in the United States

Gunadi, Christian - 2022

As of 2021, 16 U.S. States and the District of Columbia have implemented laws allowing undocumented migrants to acquire a driver's license. In this paper, I hypothesize that lower barriers to work caused by the ability to obtain driving licenses can affect undocumented migrants' fertility...

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