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 …

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 …

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 …

religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of non-Hispanic married women with young children. We … non-employment. We find that the labor market decisions of Catholic women are not significantly different from those of … their mainline Protestant counterparts, and that women affiliated with conservative Protestant denominations continue to …

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 …

substantially larger between married women and partnered lesbian women who specialize in market production (primary earners) than … between married women and partnered lesbian women who specialize in household production (secondary earners). Using a semi …. Finally, we illustrate that controlling for children significantly reduces differences between married women and secondary …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to … selection ; attrition ; dynamic programming ; structural estimation ; simulated maximum likelihood ; volunteering …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …