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Title: Low-skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Educated Women

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: Low-skilled immigrants represent a signi cant fraction of employment in services thatare close substitutes of household production. This paper studies whether the increasedsupply of low-skilled immigrants has led high-skilled women, with the highest opportunitycost of time, to change their time-use decisions.Exploiting cross-city variation in immigrant concentration, we nd that low-skilled im-migration increases average hours of market work and the probability of working long hoursof women with a professional degree or Ph.D. Consistently, for women in this educationgroup, we nd a decrease in time spent in household work and an increase in expenditureson housekeeping services.

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Authors: Tessada, Jose; Cortes, Patricia

Publisher: University of Chicago

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

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

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