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This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled … native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … family responsibilities. Our evidence indicates that over the last decade immigration led to an important expansion in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317956
This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled … native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … family responsibilities. Our evidence indicates that over the last decade immigration led to an important expansion in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969330
native women. Wehypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply ofaffordable household services, such as … when having elderlydependents in the household, and to postpone retirement.Methodologically, we show that the availability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082632
This paper examines the effects of low-skilled immigration on the work and fertility decisions of high-skilled women … born in the United States. The evidence we present indicates that low-skilled immigration to large metropolitan areas … decision making, we find that college-educated native females responded, on average, by increasing fertility and reducing short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040014
This paper uses several decades of US time-diary surveys to assess the impact of low-skilled immigration, through lower … the endogenous location of immigrants, we find that low-skilled immigration to the United States has contributed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839549
. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with … substantial and persistent negative effects of source country fertility on the labor supply of female immigrants except when we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822486
fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761693
analysis of the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigration. … 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 and women …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961045
-skilled immigration has driven down wages in the US child-care sector. More affordable child-care has, in turn, increased the fertility of …The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s …, immigrant-led declines in the price of child-care has reduced the extent of role incompatibility between fertility and work. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761699