Culture, Intermarriage, and Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
Culture, Intermarriage, and Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
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文化、通婚和移民妇女的劳动力供给
DOI：
10.1111/imig.12098
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发表时间：
2013
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通讯作者：
Sonam Gupta
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作者：
Z. Gevrek;Deniz Gevrek;Sonam Gupta
我们研究文化对加拿大第二代移民妇女工作行为的影响。我们通过分析通婚在文化代际传递中的作用及其对劳动力市场结果的后续影响，为当前的文献做出了贡献。使用相对女性劳动力参与率和总生育率作为文化代理，我们发现文化对女性劳动力供应很重要。文化代理在解释父母是移民的第二代妇女的工作时数方面具有重要意义。我们的研究结果提供的证据表明，文化代理的影响是显着更大的妇女与移民父母谁共享相同的种族背景比那些与异族通婚的父母。在异族通婚家庭中长大的妇女，文化的影响较弱，这一事实强调了异族通婚在同化过程中的重要性。我们的研究结果表明，政府针对女性劳动力供给的政策可能会对不同血统的移民女性的劳动力市场行为产生不同的影响。
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative female labor force participation and total fertility rates in the country of ancestry as cultural proxies, we find that culture matters for the female labor supply. Cultural proxies are significant in explaining number of hours worked by second-generation women with immigrant parents. Our results provide evidence that the impact of cultural proxies is significantly larger for women with immigrant parents who share same ethnic background than for those with intermarried parents. The fact that the effect of culture is weaker for women who were raised in intermarried families stresses the importance of intermarriage in assimilation process. Our findings imply that government policies targeting labor supply of women may have differential effect on labor market behavior of immigrant women of different ancestries.