This paper studies the role of the family in determining the skill composition and labor market experiences of … immigrants in the United States. Our theoretical framework, based on the assumption that family migration decisions maximize … household income, shows that the family attenuates the selection characterizing the skills of the immigrant population. The …

hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a …

, in part, to the general demise of share tenancy and its replacement by sub-family farms (minifundios) dependent on wage …

This paper joins a few very recent attempts to analyze migration in the awareness of the family context. In contrast to … most of them, my focus is exclusively on the family context. The paper defines family ties relevant to migration decisions … and explains their effects on the probability of migration, on consequent changes in employment and earnings of family …

This paper investigates the importance of family borrowing constraints in determining human capital investments in … investment responses to income and policy changes. We extend the framework to incorporate dynasties and use data from the CNLSY …

"family or career,? while the second, graduating from 1945 to the early 1960s, opted for family and employment serially - that … is, "family then job." The third, graduating since 1980 in a climate of greater gender equality, is attempting both … "family and career, " with mixed results and considerable frustration. This paper assesses the reasons for the changing set of …