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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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," 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 …
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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 …
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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 … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …
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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 …
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Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries outside the OECD, with main emphasis on immigrants coming as guest workers before 1974, as refugees and as family members and marriage partners – tied movers – relative to...
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Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more selective immigration policies reduce social...
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The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the...
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