Gender and Assimilation among Mexican Americans

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ID23654611
AutoresFrancine D Blau (0000-0001-6646-3794), Lawrence M Kahn (0000-0001-5291-4304)
Ano2007
Páginas57-106
Data de publicação2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoMexican Immigration to the United States (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7208/chicago/9780226066684.003.0003
OpenAlexW3122025999
ISBN9780226066684
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20

Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico, strongly influence the outcomes and behavior of Mexican immigrants. On arrival in the United States, immigrant women have a higher incidence of marriage (spouse present), higher fertility, and much lower labor supply than comparable white natives; wage differences are smaller than labor supply differences, and smaller than comparable wage gaps for men. Immigrant women's labor supply assimilates dramatically: the ceteris paribus immigrant shortfall is virtually eliminated after twenty years. While men experience moderate wage assimilation, evidence is mixed for women. Rising education in the second generation considerably reduces raw labor supply (especially for women) and wage gaps with nonhispanic whites. Female immigrants' high marriage rates assimilate towards comparable natives', but immigrant women and men remain more likely to be married even after long residence. The remaining ceteris paribus marriage gap is eliminated in the second generation. Immigrants' higher fertility does not assimilate toward the native level, and, while the size of the Mexican American- white native fertility differential declines across generations, it is not eliminated. Francine D. Blau School of Industrial and Labor Relations Cornell University 265 Ives Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-3901 and NBER [email protected] Lawrence M. Kahn School of Industrial and Labor Relations Cornell University 264 Ives Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-3901 [email protected] I.

Ceteris paribus · Demographic economics · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Immigration · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Residence · Sociology · Spouse · Wage · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy