Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture

Francine Blau

No 5620, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: 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. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women’s behavior in the United States. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of assimilation of immigrants.

Keywords: gender; immigration; labor supply; wages; social capital; culture; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J16 J22 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Journal Article: Immigrants and gender roles: assimilation vs. culture (2015)
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