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Title: Low-skilled immigrants and the relative wages of high-skilled mothers

Citation Type: Journal Article

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ISSN: 15737152

DOI: 10.1007/S11150-023-09686-2/TABLES/11

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Abstract: This paper examines the effects of low-skilled immigration inflows on the motherhood gaps in wages among high-skilled women. Applying IV methods to U.S. census and ACS data, this paper first confirms previous findings in the literature that mothers are less willing to increase their work hours than childless women with inflows of low-skilled immigrants. However, the main contribution of the paper is showing that as the low-skilled labor supply increases, high-skilled mothers achieve more wage improvement than otherwise identical nonmothers. The findings in this paper imply that an increase in the low-skilled labor supply reduces the gender pay gap among high-skilled native workers, and most importantly, it is driven by women with children.

Url: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-023-09686-2

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Authors: Kwak, Eunhye

Periodical (Full): Review of Economics of the Household

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Pages: 1-21

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Migration and Immigration, Work, Family, and Time

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