The impact of low-skilled immigration on female labour supply

Emanuele Forlani (), Elisabetta Lodigiani () and Concetta Mendolicchio

No 201320, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of immigrants on native female labour supply. By segmenting the market by educational levels, we are able to investigate which nativeborn women are more affected by an increase of low-skilled immigrants working in the household service sector. We present a model of individual choice with home production and, using an harmonized dataset (CNEF), we test its main predictions. Our sample includes countries implementing different family policies. Our results suggest that the share of immigrants working in services in a given local labour market is positively associated with the probability of nativeborn women to increase their labour supply at the intensive margin (number of hours worked per week), if skilled, and at the extensive margin (participation decision), if unskilled. Moreover, they show that these effects are larger in countries with less family-supportive policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Australien; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Großbritannien; Schweiz; USA; ausländische Arbeitnehmer; Einwanderer; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Familienpolitik; Frauen; Hochqualifizierte; Niedrigqualifizierte; Arbeitskräfteangebot; 2001-2005 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2013
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-mig
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Published in/as: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, (2013), 43 S., doi:10.1111/sjoe.12101

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Journal Article: Impact of Low-Skilled Immigration on Female Labour Supply (2015)
Working Paper: The Impact of Low-Skilled Immigration on Female Labour Supply (2013)
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