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The Effect of Filipino Overseas Migration on the Non-Migrant Spouse's Market Participation and Labor Supply Behavior
Cabegin, Emily - 2021
This paper examines the effect of one partner's overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner's labor force … examines the income remittance and the conjugal home-time effects of overseas migration. Addressing the potential endogeneity … of income and migration, estimates establish stronger conjugal home time effects of migration for married women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317498
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Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers : The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2021
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316004
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Exploitation and the Decision to Migrate : The Role of Abuse and Unfavorable Working Conditions in Filipina Domestic Workers' Desire to Return Abroad
Naufal, George - 2018
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries host at least 2.4 million foreign domestic workers, who are legally … attention has been paid to absconding foreign domestic workers and the complex role abuse plays in determining their future … migration. Paradoxically, absconding domestic workers who have been financially abused are more likely to want to return and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914325
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Asymmetric Information Under the Kafala Sponsorship System : Impacts on Foreign Domestic Workers' Income and Employment Status in the GCC Countries
Malit, Jr., Froilan - 2016
This paper examines the legal and policy implications of information asymmetry on foreign domestic workers employed … methodological research on GCC migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990869
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Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations
Marinescu, Ioana Elena; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2021
Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions, including the prevalence of labor rights violations. We construct novel measures of labor violation rates using data from federal agencies. Within local industries over time, a 10%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246035
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Can Immigrants Help Women 'Have it All'? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
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 skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043695
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Discrimination Against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016
with backgrounds of migration from Muslim countries, and especially of those wearing headscarves. It focused on Turkish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982550
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Migrant Women on the Labour Market : On the Role of Home-and Host-Country Participation
Kok, Suzanne - 2011
The behaviour of migrant women on the labour market is influenced by a variety of factors, among which the culture of the home and host country. Part of the literature investigates the role of home-country culture. This study extends the literature by including a measure for the influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122965
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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144690
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Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets
Sá, Filipa - 2010
High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759354