Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia … importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage … for educated women. We provide empirical evidence supporting our theoretical model and its implications, using datasets …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women´s rights to a destination with a relatively high women´s rights. However, the … costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women´s rights provided. The model predicts a non-linear relationship …

Migrant women are often stereotyped. Some scholars associate the feminization of migration with domestic work and … criticize the “care drain” as a new form of imperialism that the First World imposes on the Third World. However, migrant women … employed as domestic workers in Northern America and Europe represent only 2% of migrant women worldwide and cannot be seen as …

This working paper is based on the results of a study of the child-rearing practices of Russian-speaking women in the … language in some families affects all spheres of life, and many aspects of child-rearing. Many women develop and share ideas … about the differences in the parenting approach and style of women from the post-Soviet space and from Spain. Women perceive …

be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and …, preventing women from actually moving abroad …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …

research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …