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 …

education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and …

women who entered the British labour market between 1991 and 2009, using data from the British Household Panel Survey and … years. These effects are more pronounced for men than women and indicate that young people entering the labour market during …

of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined …. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship …

Hispanic women in the US. The first part examines 1990 and 2002, two years with very similar national unemployment levels, and … the poverty levels of black and Hispanic women would be different if they were paid the same wages as white women with the … same characteristics. The results show that for the working poor black women the difference in poverty rates would be small …