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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
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 supply...
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …. However, in a few specific cases, we find that migrants from a particular province earn significantly less than those from …
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …
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Immigration in High-Skill Labor Markets : The Impact of Foreign Students on the Earnings of Doctorates by Gender
2023
Over the past three decades, both the number of high-skilled immigrants and low-skilled immigrants of the United States has grown with the increasing population of immigrants. The development of globalization of science and technology has continuously strengthened the social demand for human...
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Behind every high earning man is a conscientious woman : a study of the impact of spousal personality on wages
Averett, Susan; Bansak, Cynthia; Smith, Julie K. - 2018
This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several of the big five personality characteristics...
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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...
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Gender and immigration : double negative effects in the labor market outcomes of university graduates in Germany? ; conference paper
Bünstorf, Guido; Krabel, Stefan - 2014 - This version: February 2014
terms of gender and immigration status). Similar patterns are obtained for job satisfaction and the match quality of …
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Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010
, and the penalty is most negative among the lowest (conditional) wages. On the other hand, women in Britain experience … lower wages, but the most significant results are found for British workers emigrating from non-English speaking countries …
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The Gender Aspect of Immigrants' Assimilation in Europe
Lee, Tae; Peri, Giovanni; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
-2018. We measure convergence of labor market outcomes for male and female migrants to similar natives before and after the … Great Recession and across countries of destination. Our results show that in most countries female migrants start with a … larger employment gap but converge more rapidly than male migrants do. We also provide a broad overview of the role of …
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