study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate …

opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …

- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …

The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since …. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their …

natives and that there is no return to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital …

society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …