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Empirical findings on the Swiss migration experience

Golder, Stefan M.; Straubhaar, Thomas - 1999

Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the last 50 years after World War II, which has led Switzerland to have among the highest share of foreigners in population among all OECD countries. This paper analyses the migration experience of Switzerland. The analysis...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Impact of remittances on fertility : remittances are closely linked to household fertility choices with consequences at the community and country level

Naufal, George - 2015

inflows and fertility rates. …

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Exposure to the one-child policy and fertility among Chinese immigrants to the US

Lin, Siyuan; Argys, Laura M.; Averett, Susan - 2023

We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate … to a country without fertility restrictions. Using American Community Survey data (2010-2020), we compare the …

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Does return migration influence fertility at home? : migrants encounter different fertility norms while abroad, which they can bring back upon returning home

Bertoli, Simone - 2015

migrants, who predominantly move on a temporary basis, encounter new fertility norms in their host countries and then bring … them back home. These new fertility norms can be higher or lower than those in their country of origin. So the new … fertility norms that result from migration flows can either accelerate or slow down a demographic transition in migrant …

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

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2010

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...

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Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens: comment

Stark, Oded - 2021

In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the...

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Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy - 2021

We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic...

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