Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128322 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5620
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
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.
Subjects: 
gender
immigration
labor supply
wages
social capital
culture
human capital
JEL: 
J13
J16
J22
J24
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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