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Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2017
outcomes, and a broad trend towards greater equality. Earnings gaps have been reduced by, among other factors, improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635687
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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. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404275
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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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The last hurdle? : unyielding motherhood effects in the context of declining gender inequality in Latin America
Marchionni, Mariana; Pedrazzi, Julián - 2023
’ earnings. This result is explained by a reduction in employment and a prompting shift towards occupations that favor more … and per capita GDP or gender norms, while the contribution of other factors to the gender gap in earnings diminishes with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468158
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Child Penalties and Parental Role Models : Classroom Exposure Effects
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Olivero, Giulia; Patacchini, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child penalties -- are shaped by the work behavior of peers' parents during adolescence. Leveraging quasi-random variation in the fraction of peers with working parents across cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072943
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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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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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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