terms of gender and immigration status). Similar patterns are obtained for job satisfaction and the match quality of … of highly skilled young women and immigrants. Our results indicate a systemic wage gap for women, but not for male … immigrants. We find no evidence that female immigrants suffer from a double-negative effect of being disadvantaged twofold (in …

In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We … differences in observable characteristics. We find that white female immigrants and their husbands have an overall advantage in … earnings over white native born, both individually and at the household level. Minority immigrants do less well, in particular …

Using newly digitized Canada-Vermont border crossing records from the early twentieth century, this paper identifies … key factors that may explain differences in how female and male migrants sort by human capital across destinations …. Earnings maximization largely explains sorting patterns among males, while gender discrimination has a large effect on the …