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Title: The Double Disadvantage Reconsidered: Gender, Immigration, Marital Status, and Global Labor Force Participation in the 21st Century

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: Although women's representation among international migrants in many countries has risen over the last 100 years, we know far less about gender gaps in the labor force participation of immigrants across a wide span of host societies. Prior studies have established that immigrant women are doubly disadvantaged in terms of labor market outcomes in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. These studies suggest an intriguing question: Are there gender gaps in immigrant labor force participation across destinations countries? In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the double disadvantage exists for immigrant women in a variety of host countries. We also examine how marriage moderates this double disadvantage. For the U.S., although we find that immigrant women have had the lowest labor force participation rates compared to natives and immigrant men since 1960, marital status is an important stratifying attribute that helps explain nativity differences. Extending the analysis to eight other countries reveals strong gender differences in labor force participation and shows how marriage differentiates immigrant women's labor force entry more so than men's.

Url: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12142/full

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Authors: Donato, Katharine M; Piya, Bhumika; Jacobs, Anna

Periodical (Full): International Migration Review

Issue: Supplement s1

Volume: 48

Pages: 335-376

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS International

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

Countries: Brazil, Canada, Greece, Israel, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Venezuela