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Title: Gender Roles and Labor Supply of Immigrant Women: Does Culture Matter More in Endogamous Marriage?
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: This paper examines the effects of gender roles on the labor supply of women within a social institution, marriage. Using survey responses on gender roles from her source country as cultural proxies, I study whether the effects are greater when the cultural beliefs are shared between spouses. I find that an immigrant woman’s labor supply is jointly negatively explained by her own and her husband’s gender role attitude. In addition, the effects of endogamy are significantly more negative for traditional women where the endogenous formation of marriage is instrumented by geographically constrained marriage market conditions. I argue that this indicates a greater relevance of culture in endogamous marriage and present evidence that rules out the case where differential patterns of assimilation by marriage type are the sole reason behind the asymmetry.
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Authors: Hyun, Yeseul
Publisher: Boston University
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration
Countries: Ukraine