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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China
Li, Hongbin - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015013
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International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses
Schøne, Pål - 2020
We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of home production among workers employed in the Building and Construction industry, and their wives. We use license requirements to divide workers into two groups who are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844815
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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011169
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Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
By exploiting a commuting policy that led to a sharp and unexpected inflow of Czech workers to areas along the German-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor supply shock on local wages and employment of natives. On average, the supply shock leads to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985287
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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2011
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119020
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Substitution between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121740
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157532
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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women
Farré, Lidia - 2009
native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … size of the household services sector and to an increase in the labor supply of women in high-earning occupations (of about …, to stay in the workforce longer when having elderly dependents in the household, and to postpone retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158120
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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321056
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Culture and the Labor Supply of Female Immigrants
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240749