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Title: Low Skilled Immigration and Work-Fertility Tradeoffs among High Skilled US Natives

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: We start by writing a statistical model that allows the fertility-FLFP correlation, a macro concept, to be interpreted in terms of individual fertility and work decisions. We then examine variation across US metropolitan areas over time to assess the degree to which low skilled, mostly Hispanic immigrant inflows attenuated the negative correlation between childbearing and FLFP among college educated non-Hispanic natives. This differentiation by skill and ethnicity allows us to draw on a commonly used instrumental variables approach to isolate a causal channel of influence of immigrants on the outcomes of natives via the cost of local household services. Finally, we describe how our estimates of the effect of low skilled immigration on the correlation coefficient can be used to calculate concrete impacts on joint childbearing and labor force participation outcomes.

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Authors: Hock, Heinrich; Furtado, Delia

Periodical (Full): American Economic Review

Issue: 2

Volume: 100

Pages: 224-228

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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