Substitution between individual and source country characteristics: Social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrantwomen

Journal of Human Capital
Volume 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 439-482

Substitution between individual and source country characteristics: Social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrantwomen (Article)

Blau F.D. , Kahn L.M.

^a Cornell University, National Bureau of Economic Research, United States, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Center for Economic Studies–Ifo, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Germany
^b Cornell University, United States, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Center for Economic Studies–Ifo, National Centre for Econometric Research, Germany

Abstract

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the United States. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the United States. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply prior to migrating, which itself also strongly positively affects US labor supply. We further find a significantly negative interaction between premigration labor supply and source country female labor supply. We obtain similar effects on hourly earnings among the employed. © 2015 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.

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DOI: 10.1086/683542

ISSN: 19328575

Cited by: 4

Original Language: English