origin and gender. Based on theoretical arguments of human capital theory, sociocultural approaches, labour market … 2015 we deal with interaction patterns of ethnic origin and gender regarding various labour market outcomes for immigrants …, and job characteristics on ethnic and gender gaps. We find evidence of additional disadvantages of immigrant women on each …

's agency to make or otherwise influence migration decisions. These two constraining effects on the female share in migrant … powerful push factor. We find corroborating evidence in our analysis of the gender composition of migration to Germany over the …There is a large variation across countries of origin in the gender composition of migrants coming to Germany. We argue …

The labor market performance of immigrants relative to natives has been widely studied but its gender dimension has …

-country migration flows and are commonly viewed as having less bargaining power than men. I find that higher female and lower male …

investigate the push and pull factors of female migration. The dynamic panel data approach, generalized method of moments (GMM …

. Earnings maximization largely explains sorting patterns among males, while gender discrimination has a large effect on the … suggesting that their degree of agency in the destination choice increased with human capital. …