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The Effect of Increasing Immigration Enforcement on the Labor Supply of High-Skilled Citizen Women
East, Chloe - 2019
Recent decades have seen a surge in local interior immigration enforcement. In this paper we examine a little discussed, but potentially important, spillover effect of enforcement policies: changes in high-skilled citizen women's labor supply due to changes in the cost of outsourcing household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894543
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The effect of increasing immigration enforcement on the labor supply of high-skilled citizen women
East, Chloe N.; Velásquez, Andrea - 2018
Recent decades have seen a surge in local interior immigration enforcement. In this paper we examine a little discussed, but potentially important, spillover effect of enforcement policies: changes in high-skilled citizen women's labor supply due to changes in the cost of outsourcing household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958497
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Book Reviews. Managing the Margins : Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment
Blackett, Adelle - 2017
The great strength of Canada Research Chair Leah Vosko's new book lies in its cogent, well-documented critique. Vosko's notion of standard employment relationships takes distance from those who reject citizenship's potential as a transformative concept; it offers denationalized citizenship as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964766
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Does granting refugee status to family-reunified women improve their integration?
Hasager, Linea - 2023
In most countries, men are the principal asylum applicants, while women are admitted through family-reunification procedures. Family reunification implies that women's residence permits are contingent on remaining married to their husbands. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447793
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430557
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434604
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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows
Furtado, Delia - 2014
potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434634
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The effect of Filipino overseas migration on the non-migrant spouse's market participation and labor supply behavior
Cabegin, Emily Christi A. (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines the effect of one partner's overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner's labor force participation and supply behavior. I compare the effect when the migrant partner is male and when she is female. The study uses merged 2003 data sets from the nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003419323
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The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland
Favre, Sandro - 2011
Recent immigrants in Switzerland are overrepresented at the top of the wage distribution in high and at the bottom in low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage distribution in the former group and to an expansion in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344847
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Female migration and native marital stability : insights from Italy
Vignoli, Daniele; Venturini, Alessandra; Pirani, Elena - 2015
In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting marital disruption on data from the nationally –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347111