Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234707 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1136
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
We study the effects of female immigration on the labor supply of Dominican-born women of different educational levels and family structures. Using individual-level data for 2003 - 2016 and exploiting geographic variation in early immigrant settlements together with time variation in female immigration inflows, we find that female immigration is associated with a decrease in the labor supply of low educated women at the intensive margin (hours worked) and with an increase in the labor supply at the intensive margin of highly educated women with family dependents (relative to equally educated women without dependents). We fill a gap in the literature on the links between migration and female labor supply, which has focused on developed countries.
Subjects: 
Immigration
Female labor supply
Developing countries
JEL: 
F22
J16
J22
J61
R23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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