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Cultural values and decision to work of immigrant women in Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - 2014
gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …
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Culture, religiosity and female labor supply
Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gokce - 2014
Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348904
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Skills or culture? : an analysis of the decision to work by immigrant women in Italy
Accetturo, Antonio; Infante, Luigi - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
Activity and employment rates for immigrant women in many industrialised countries display a great variability across national groups. The aim of this paper is to assess whether this fact is due to a voluntary decision (i.e. large reservation wages by immigrants) or to an involuntary process...
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The causal effect of deficiency at English on female immigrants' labor market outcomes in the UK
Miranda, Alfonso; Zhu, Yu - 2013
We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...
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The cost of immigrants' occupational mismatch and the effectiveness of postarrival policies in Canada
Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul A. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-23
Using the 2006 Census, we create a continuous index that quantifies the relatedness between 1375 fields of study and 520 occupations for native-born workers and use it as the benchmark reflecting the "common" matching quality in Canadian labor markets that internationally educated immigrant...
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Skills or Culture? An Analysis of the Decision to Work by Immigrant Women in Italy
Accetturo, Antonio - 2011
Activity and employment rates for immigrant women in many industrialized countries display a great variability across national groups. The aim of this paper is to assess whether this well-known fact is due to a voluntary decision (i.e. large reservation wages by the immigrants) or to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118370
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Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation : A Comparison of Methods
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2012
We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096439
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Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation : A Comparison of Methods
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2012
We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001 - 2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on crosssectional data and have therefore suffered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097289
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Labor market outcomes of same-sex couples in countries with legalized same-sex marriage
Bogusz, Honorata; Gromadzki, Jan - 2024
We study the labor market outcomes of same-sex couples using data from large household surveys that represent more than two-thirds of the world's population with access to same-sex marriage on three continents. Same-sex couples are less likely to be inactive and work more hours than...
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Social networks, gender norms and women's labor supply : experimental evidence using a job search platform
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari; … - 2022
Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force … effect. Neither couples nor their networks were offered the service in the control group. Approximately one year after the … treatment group. We argue that our findings can be explained by the gendered structure of social networks in our setting, which …
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