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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...

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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

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

Why are Women Working so Much More in Canada? : An International Perspective

Tsounta, Evridiki - 2006

This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780106

The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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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...

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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...

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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. …

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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

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

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