Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272474 
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Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15847
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment, in which Soviet Jewish immigrants were quasi-randomly allocated of to the U.S. and Israel. I find that young women who immigrated as children follow similar fertility profiles in the two host countries. In Israel, they are also similar to native-born women by exercising almost no selection into motherhood and postnatal labor force participation. By contrast, and away from native-born American women, immigrants to the U.S. either combine family and career or become low-educated non-working mothers. This non-trivial segregation arises from a combination of the American Dream with origin-determined fertility norms.
Subjects: 
immigration
Soviet Jews
female labor force participation
immigrant fertility
JEL: 
J13
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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