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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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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388335

The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians

Tu, Jiong - 2010

Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on … the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship … of immigration are consistently insignificant or significantly positive. The results are robust to various specifications …

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Does Immigration, Particularly Increases in Latinos, Affect African American Wages, Unemployment and Incarceration Rates?

Strauss, Jack - 2013

This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on African American wages, unemployment, employment and incarceration … increased immigration including Latinos to higher African American wages and lower poverty. Rising immigration including from …-sectional metro approach to immigration has been endogeneity. Does increased immigration to a city lead to improved economic outcomes …

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The Labor Market Effects of English Language Proficiency : Communication Skills and the Occupational Choice of Childhood Immigrants to the United States

Hlavac, Marek - 2013

I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...

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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration

Edo, Anthony - 2017

state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and …

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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves : Reconciling Conflicting Results

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …

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The Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 2017

Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States, and there has been a heated debate over the impact of legislative or executive efforts to regularize the status of this population. This paper examines the determinants of earnings for undocumented workers. Using newly developed...

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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration

Edo, Anthony - 2018

This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of … federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration … on the wages and employment of native workers within a given state-skill cell is more negative in States with low minimum …

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Immigration : How Does It Impact the Wages of Native Workers?

Gana, Rajaram - 2018

indicate that immigration differentially impacts native worker wages across skill sets. In particular, for a 10% increase in …I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If … to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and native worker wages, which was assembled about 15 years ago. At …

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