First- and Second-Generation Women's Economic Assimilation: An Analysis of Longitudinal Earnings Records.

ABSTRACT: Research on the economic assimilation of immigrants and their descendants has dispropor tionately focused on men. In this study, we examine the life-course employment and earnings trajectories of first- and second-generation women using a restricted-use dataset linking individual respondents of the Current Population Survey (CPS) to their tax earnings records We compare the age-specific probability of employment and annual earnings of women of each immigrant generation by race and ethnicity from early to middle adulthood covering a span of 20 years. We consider alternative explanations for observed disparities including differences in the level of education and the timing and response to childbearing. Our analyses reveal distinct patterns across immigrant generations and ethnoracial groups

SUBMITTER: Villarreal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11784599 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature