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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388335
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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624916
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Revisiting wage, earnings, and hours profiles
Rupert, Peter; Zanella, Giulio - 2014
We document empirical life cycle profiles of wages, earnings, and hours of work for pay from the Panel Study of Income … decline with age (not before 65, at least), while the earnings profile always does. The discrepancy is explained by a sharp …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730125
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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014
earnings among the employed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509636
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Accumulation of human and market capital in the United States, 1975-2012 : an analysis by gender
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S. - 2019
This paper covers a continuous and longer time period than previously possible to examine human and market capital because of research by Christian (2017). This paper focuses on the presentation and analysis of trends in human capital by gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019259
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The economics of human cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001545534
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Spatial distribution of US employment in an urban wage-efficiency setting
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016
In this paper, we analyze the spatial distribution of US employment and earnings against an urban wage … relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly … concentrated in metropolitan cores, and that earnings increase with "expected" commuting time, which gives empirical support to our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452224
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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602108
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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603991