Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

By Ĺıdia Farré, Libertad González, Francesc Ortega. Social Science Research Network, 2011

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Abstract We investigate the effect of immigration on the labor supply of skilled women, using data on Spain’s large recent immigration wave. We adopt a spatial correlations approach and instrument for current immigration using ethnic networks. We find that female immigration increases the local availability of household services and reduces their price. It also increases the labor supply of skilled native women, by allowing them to return to work earlier after childbirth, and to continue working while caring for elderly dependents. Immigration can account for one third of the recent increase in the employment rate of college-educated women providing child or elderly care.

Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ea4d24763bff9aa2b2ba2122c3a64c5bb1975db2

Citations in the corpus

• Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, unknown): “A few papers provide evidence of the cultural diffusion of gender norms through migration using large-scale migration flows within Germany and the former USSR.”