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Title: The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: Using 19952006 Current Population Survey and 19702000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor supply of US-born women with foreign-born parent(s) are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generations levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from the mothers source country larger than that of women from the fathers source country and the effect of the education of men from the fathers source country larger than that of women from the mothers source country. Transmission rates for immigrant fertility between generations are higher than for labor supply or education, with considerable intergenerational assimilation toward native levels of schooling and labor supply, but more persistence for fertility.

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Authors: Blau, Francine D.; Papps, Kerry L.; Liu, Albert Y.; Kahn, Lawrence M.

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Publication Number: w14388

Institution: Cornell University

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Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

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

Countries: United States