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Family, Work and Women: The Labor Supply of Hispanic Immigrant Wives
Haya Stier,Marta Tienda +1 more
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The article focuses on the economic circumstances and the family arrangements that govern the labor supply of Hispanic immigrant wives in the United States. We use a two-stage estimation procedure ...read more
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Reframing the Migration Question: An Analysis of Men, Women, and Gender in Mexico
TL;DR: For example, this article found that men are negatively selected to migrate, but, conversely, higher education increases migration among women, and that women with higher education are more likely to migrate.
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The difference that skills make: gender, family migration strategies and regulated labour markets
TL;DR: This article examined the ways in which immigration regulations intersect with labour market conditions in influencing family strategies around labour market participation of men and women in migrant households and argued that such an analysis is necessary for understanding family migration amongst the skilled.
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Current trends and patterns of female migration: evidence from Mexico
TL;DR: Evidence suggests that, like men, once women begin migrating, they are virtually assured of migrating on a second trip and results from the departure models suggest that recent female migration reflects access to the productive resources in Mexican society and a process of family migration whereby women migrate after their husbands and fathers legalized as part of IRCA.
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GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND IMMIGRATION: Double Disadvantage and Triple Disadvantage among Recent Immigrant Women in the Israeli Labor Market
Rebeca Raijman,Moshe Semyonov +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether recent immigrant women in the Israeli labor market are at a "double disadvantage" and whether and to what extent such disadvantages differ across ethnic and geocultural groups.
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The employment and wages of legalized immigrants.
George J. Borjas,Marta Tienda +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis of the employment and wages of recently legalized immigrants using the Legalization Application Processing System (LAPS) file, an administrative file based on the individual records of amnesty applicants, and comparisons with a sample of the foreign-born population from the Current Population Surveys of 1983, 1986 and 1988 reveal high rates of labor force participation among legalized immigrants.
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Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error
TL;DR: In this article, the bias that results from using non-randomly selected samples to estimate behavioral relationships as an ordinary specification error or "omitted variables" bias is discussed, and the asymptotic distribution of the estimator is derived.
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The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the earnings of foreign-born adult white men, as reported in the 1970 Census of Population, through comparisons with the native born and among the foreign born by country of origin, years in the United States, and citizenship.
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Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women
Jacob Mincer,Solomon Polacheck +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is recognized that an individual's use of time, and particularly the allocation of time between market and nonmarket activities, is also best understood within the context of the family as a matter of interdependence with needs, activities, and characteristics of other family members.
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Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants
TL;DR: This article studied the earnings growth experienced by specific immigrant cohorts during the period 1970-80 and found that within-cohort growth is significantly smaller than the growth predicted by cross-section regressions for most immigrant groups.