In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …

In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …