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

42 Pages Posted: 10 Oct 2008 Last revised: 26 Oct 2022

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Francine D. Blau

Cornell University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research); IZA Institute of Labor Economics; German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Lawrence M. Kahn

Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research); IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Albert Yung-Hsu Liu

Cornell University - Cornell Higher Education Research Institute; Cornell University - Department of Economics

Kerry L. Papps

University of Bradford; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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Date Written: October 2008

Abstract

Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor supply of second generation women (US-born women with at least one foreign-born parent) are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from the mother's source country generally larger than that of women from the father's source country and the effect of the education of men from the father's source country larger than that of women from the mother's source country. We present some evidence that suggests our findings for fertility and labor supply are due to at least in part to intergenerational transmission of gender roles. Transmission rates for immigrant fertility and labor supply between generations are higher than for education, but there is considerable intergenerational assimilation toward native levels for all three of these outcomes.

Suggested Citation

Blau, Francine D. and Kahn, Lawrence M. and Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu and Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu and Papps, Kerry L., The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations (October 2008). NBER Working Paper No. w14388, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1278461

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