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Intra-household labor supply, migration, and subsistence constraints in a risky environment : evidence from rural El salvador

Halliday, Timothy - In: European economic review : EER 56 (2012) 6, pp. 1001-1019

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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle

Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 4, pp. 1432-1467

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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 : IZAJOM 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 working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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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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) 1/3, 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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Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants : differences by gender

Basu, Sukanya - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 8, pp. 1-28

Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can …. Using the 2010 American Community Survey, a household labor market specialization index is created. Raw two-limit Tobit …

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Windfall gains and labour supply : evidence from the European household panel

Sila, Urban; Sousa, Ricardo M. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-27

We investigate whether workers adjust hours worked in response to windfall gains using data from the European Household …

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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 : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), 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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(Re)investigation of rural women’s labour supply in India : the impact of household poverty status : a panel data analysis

Sebastian, Nancy - In: Margin: the journal of applied economic research 13 (2019) 4, pp. 436-469

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