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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

Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...

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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows

Furtado, Delia - 2015

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OPT policy changes and foreign born STEM talent in the US

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Furtado, Delia; Xu, Huanan - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 61 (2019), pp. 110-127

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OPT policy changes and foreign born STEM talent in the U.S.

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Furtado, Delia; Xu, Huanan - 2019

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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions

Furtado, Delia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-19

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-skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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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 skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434604

Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows

Furtado, Delia - 2014

While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...

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How do low-skilled immigrants adjust to Chinese import shocks? : evidence using English language proficiency

Furtado, Delia; Kong, Haiyang - 2021

little support for selective domestic migration in response to trade shocks, we present evidence suggesting that new …. Regardless of whether low-skilled immigrants respond to trade shocks via actual improvements in English fluency or migration …

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Interethnic marriage: a choice between ethnic and educational similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2008

matching effect). Using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, we find that controlling for the enclave effect, there is empirical … evidence for both the cultural adaptability and assortative matching effects. Our estimates also suggest that assortative … matching is relatively more important for the native born rather than the foreign born, for the foreign born that arrived young …

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Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States

Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - 2008

The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...

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