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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
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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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence; Papps, Kerry L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
substantial and persistent negative effects of source country fertility on the labor supply of female immigrants except when we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714520
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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor supply of second generation women (US-born women with at least one foreign-born parent) are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's levels of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775210
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How Do Immigrants Spend Time?: The Process of Assimilation
Hamermesh, Daniel; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the … process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their time--based on the notion that assimilating activities entail fixed … costs. The theory predicts that immigrants will be less likely than natives to undertake such activities, but conditional on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682642
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Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs: U.S. Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign IT Workers
Bound, John; Demirci, Murat; Khanna, Gaurav; Turner, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The rising importance of Information Technology (IT) occupations in the U.S. economy has been accompanied by an expansion in the representation of high-skill foreign-born IT workers. To illustrate, the share of foreign born in IT occupations increased from about 15.5% to about 31.5% between 1993...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969295
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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We randomly assigned migrants from El Salvador and Guatemala 10-week remittance transaction fee discounts, and assess impacts using administrative transaction data and a post-experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969356
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Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the US
Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We use data from the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates to examine the post-degree location choices of foreign-born students receiving PhDs from US universities in science and engineering. Over the period 1960 to 2008, 77% of foreign-born S&E PhDs state that they plan to stay in the United States....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950815
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950838
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Mobile Scientists and International Networks
Stephan, Paula E.; Scellato, Giuseppe; Franzoni, Chiara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper explores the link between mobility and the presence of international research networks. Data come from the GlobSci survey of authors of articles published in 2009 in four fields of science working in sixteen countries. Summary evidence suggests that migration plays an important role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950868
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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data
Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to address three interconnected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950945