By the end of the nineteenth century, labor legislation for women had become a prominent issue in the United States … gainful employment. Our findings indicate that laws regulating health and safety conditions and restricting women's night work … our period of analysis. Examining heterogeneous effects reveals that younger and married women without children witnessed …

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

greater utility for both men and women, with women disliking domestic chores as much as men. Although couples would want to … use housework arrangements to compensate for differentials in labor market involvement, women end up performing a … evened up to the most progressive levels observed in the sample, women doing more housework than their partners would stop to …

household, but has no sizable effect on hours worked. Most of these effects are driven by less educated women. A new … decomposition analysis allows us to estimate that approximately half of the impact on labor force participation is due to women …