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Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
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important for analyzing women's post-school human capital accumulation, residual wage inequality, and the gender pay gap …
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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/10010278821
important for analyzing women's post-school human capital accumulation, residual wage inequality, and the gender pay gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216286
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
Using 1995–2006 Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761693
There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010-2012, women were … education and experience and commonly work in different industries and occupations, multiple factors can influence the gender … to education, experience, and occupational wage differentials. Systems of wage compression narrow the gender pay gap but …
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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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significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …
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