Immigrants and gender roles: assimilation vs. culture
Immigrants and gender roles: assimilation vs. culture
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DOI：
10.1186/s40176-015-0048-5
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
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Blau, Francine D.
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作者：
Blau, Francine D.
本文考察了同化与来源国文化在影响美国移民女性行为方面的作用，考察了移民在美国居住的时间和跨代移民。它特别关注劳动力供应，但对于第二代，也考察了生育率和教育。我们发现大量证据表明，移民来源国的性别角色影响了美国移民和第二代女性的行为。这一结论对于排除其他不可观察因素的影响和区分文化与社会资本的影响的各种努力都是强有力的。这些结果支持了越来越多的文献，表明文化对经济行为很重要。与此同时，研究结果显示了大量移民同化的证据。随着时间的推移，移民妇女缩小了与美国本土出生妇女的劳动力供应差距，尽管我们的研究结果表明代际传递的重要作用，但它们也表明，移民在几代人之间的教育水平、生育率和劳动力供应方面与本土水平相当趋同。
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women's behavior in the United States. This conclusion is robust to various efforts to rule out the effect of other unobservables and to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and, while our results suggest an important role for intergenerational transmission, they also indicate considerable convergence of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations.