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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native‐born women with time in the United States, and …
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We examine the work experiences during middle school and high school of U.S. females and males and find that most of the child-oriented work such as babysitting and camp counseling is done by females. If the type of work undertaken while young affects either development of specific human capital...
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Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply …
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Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
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Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women's labor supply behavior from 1980 to … 1990s. Moreover, a major new development was that, during both decades, there was a dramatic reduction in women's own wage … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 …
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