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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture

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 but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women's behavior in the United States. This conclusion is robust to various efforts to rule out the effect of other unobservables and to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and, while our results suggest an important role for intergenerational transmission, they also indicate considerable convergence of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: IZA Journal of Migration ; ISSN: 2193-9039 ; Volume: 4 ; Year: 2015 ; Pages: 1-21 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Thema
Gender
Immigration
Labor supply
Wages
Social capital
Culture
Human capital
Migranten
Frauen
Kultur
Soziale Integration
Arbeitsangebot
Fertilität
Frauenbildung
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Blau, Francine
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer
(wo)
Heidelberg
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.1186/s40176-015-0048-5
Handle
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  • Artikel

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  • Blau, Francine
  • Springer

Entstanden

  • 2015

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