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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 …
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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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There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225774
supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation …. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with …
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. The second generation's education levels are also significantly positively affected by that of their parents, with a … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by … immigrant fertility to the second generation than we do for labor supply or education: after one generation, 40-65% of any …
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