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. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with … assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor …
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fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education.We find … considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women's behavior in the …
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In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
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This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on … individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and child care, and the gender gaps in these activities, but most research refers to … single countries, and general patterns are rarely explored. Cross-country evidence on gender gaps in paid work, unpaid work …
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Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … equally. We also find that individual gender norms matter both for women's involvement in unpaid work at home and for the …
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subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative female labor force participation and total fertility rates in the … intermarried families stresses the importance of intermarriage in assimilation process. Our results are robust to different …
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This paper analyzes the impact of source-country culture on the labor supply of female immigrants in Europe. We find that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio in their source country, which serves as a proxy for the...
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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …
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