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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...

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Unemployment and willingness to accept job offers: results of a factorial survey experiment

Abraham, Martin; Auspurg, Katrin; Bähr, Sebastian; … - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 4, pp. 283-305

Matching individuals to jobs is a fundamental problem in any labour market. This paper focuses on job characteristics, such as wages, job quality, and distance from the current place of residence, and the impact of these characteristics on the willingness of employed and unemployed individuals...

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Policies to support women’s paid work

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Engaging in paid work is generally difficult for women in developing countries. Many women work unpaid in family businesses or on farms, are engaged in low-income self-employment activities, or work in low-paid wage employment. In some countries, vocational training or grants for starting a...

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The working hours of immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in order to accumulate savings and invest in financial capital that can be transferred back to their...

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Skills or culture? An analysis of the decision to work by immigrant women in Italy

Accetturo, Antonio; Infante, Luigi - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

Activity and employment rates for immigrant women in many industrialised countries display a great variability across national groups. The aim of this paper is to assess whether this fact is due to a voluntary decision (i.e. large reservation wages by immigrants) or to an involuntary process...

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The dynamics of international migration: Introduction

Stark, Oded - In: International Review of Economics and Finance 28 (2013), pp. 1-2

This special issue of the International Review of Economics and Finance contributes to the received literature of the dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human capital formation response to the prospect of...

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Who and how many can work from home? Evidence from task descriptions

Holgersen, Henning; Jia, Zhiyang; Svenkerud, Simen - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-13

The Covid-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work from home (WFH) in an effort to limit the spread of the disease. The ability to work from home has long been considered a perk, but we have few estimates of how many jobs are actually possible to be performed...

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Examining the impact of Legal Arizona Worker Act on native female labor supply in the United States

Gunadi, Christian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 10 (2020) 1, pp. 1-41

Low-skilled immigration has been argued to lower the price of services that are close substitutes for household … native workers in household service occupations due to LAWA, which offset the decline in immigrants in these occupations and … caused the cost of household services to be relatively uninfluenced by the passage of LAWA. …

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The labour supply effects of a partial cash-out of in-kind transfers to single mothers

Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling exploits a reform that affected U.K. single mothers. In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some...

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Sex-ratios and work in Latin American households: Evidence from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 30 (2021) 1, pp. 1-25

We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile (2015). We find that sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted...

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