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Title: The Labor Supply of Immigrants in the United States: The Role of Changing Source Country Characteristics

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: The role that source country characteristics has in determining the labor market performance of immigrants has long been explored by economists. For example, Borjas J. Borjas 1987 models the migration decision as determined by expected di_erence in the immigrant's position in the earnings distribution in the host and source countries. Deborah A. Cobb-Clark 1993 extends Bor- jas' model to immigrant women. Similarly, other studies explore how culture or traditional gender roles in the source country persist across borders and inuence the labor market outcomes of immigrant women in the U.S. For ex-ample, Heather Antecol 2001, 2000 and Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, and Kerry L. Papps 2008 _nd a positive relationship between source country characteristics and the labor market outcomes of immigrant women in the U.S. However, absent from the existing literature is an examination of how changes over time in a source country's characteristics are associated with changes in the labor market outcomes of immigrants from that source country.

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Authors: Lopez, Mary; Lozano, Fernando Antonio

Periodical (Full): American Economic Review

Issue: 2

Volume: 99

Pages: 35-40

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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