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previous Latin American immigrants falls when controlling for out-migration. This highlights the importance of controlling for … out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration …
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Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment...
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immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to … affecting their labor supply and wages in the United States. We find, as expected, that women who migrate from countries with …
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relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …
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predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …
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Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publicly-subsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...
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Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family … women in the past had a high success rate in combining family and career. Cohort I (graduating c. 1910) had a 50% rate of … career vary from 24% to 33% for all college graduate women in the sample. Thus only 13% to 17% of the group achieved 'family …
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Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … source countries were found to have very similar unadjusted fertility to native-born women. The small immigrant …
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places. This paper seeks to understand the labor market implications of allowing free migration across borders, with … particular reference to the EU. The aim is to quantify the migration flows associated with EU enlargement, and to analyze the …
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We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men … workplace “family friendliness” and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … fathers. We find that exogenously moving mothers to more family friendly workplaces would raise their wages and labor income …
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