Immigrants and gender roles
Assimilation vs. Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3072408 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francine D Blau (0000-0001-6646-3794, Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IZA Journal of Migration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2193-9039 • E-ISSN: 2193-9039 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1186/s40176-015-0048-5 |
| OpenAlex | W2172556953 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 25 |
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. We find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women's behavior in the United States. This conclusion is robust to various efforts to rule out the effect of other unobservables and to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and, while our results suggest an important role for intergenerational transmission, they also indicate considerable convergence of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations. JEL codes: J13, J16, J22, J24, J61
Assimilation (phonology · Convergence (economics · Cultural assimilation · Cultural transmission in animals · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Human capital · Immigration · Labour economics · Overlapping generations model · Political science · Population · Residence · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |