ratios. We find a positive and robust association between immigrant women's labor supply and the femaleto-male labor force … finding is due to the cultural assimilation of female immigrants to native women's gender norms, and not the result of … choice, we further provide supportive evidence that the association between natives' gender norms and immigrant women's labor …

requirements of jobs, to explore whether Canadian immigrant women behave as secondary workers, remaining marginally attached to the … native women elsewhere, with rising participation (and wage assimilation). At best, only relatively uneducated immigrant … women in unskilled occupations may fit the profile of secondary workers, with slow skill mobility and low-status job …

What is the role of married women in immigrant households? Their contribution to the labor market has traditionally … suggests that married immigrant women make labor supply decisions similar to those recently observed for native-born married … women, who are guided by their own opportunities in the labor market rather than by their spouses' employment trajectories. …