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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012
recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …
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The transmission of women's fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - 2008
's fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … immigrant fertility, suggesting a quality-quantity tradeoff for immigrant families. We find higher transmission rates for … immigrant fertility to the second generation than we do for labor supply or education: after one generation, 40-65% of any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268682
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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.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to … culture and norms in affecting immigrant women's labor supply, since the effect of source country female labor supply on … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278821
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Gender, source country characteristics and labor market assimilation among immigrants: 1980 - 2000
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - 2008
assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268925
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Gender, source country characteristics, and labor market assimilation among immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Lerry L. - In: The review of economics and statistics 93 (2011) 1, pp. 43-58
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009160729
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The Impact of Employment Protection Mandates on Demographic Temporary Employment Patterns: International Microeconomic Evidence
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2005
employment for young workers, native women, immigrant women and those with low cognitive ability. These effects largely hold up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262654
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268671
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Temporary jobs and job search effort in Europe
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eight countries during 1995-2001, I investigate temporary job contract duration and job search effort. The countries are Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269317
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Employment Protection Reforms, Employment and theIncidence of Temporary Jobs in Europe : 1995–2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, Iinvestigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and ontemporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated,with the inclusion of country-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860772
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The Impact of Employment Protection Mandates on Demographic Temporary Employment Patterns: International Microeconomic Evidence
Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
employment for young workers, native women, immigrant women and those with low cognitive ability. These effects largely hold up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761974