2005
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/gri026
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Abstract: In this paper we investigate economic activity of female immigrants and their husbands in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign born females who are white and their husbands. We compare these to native born white women and their husbands. Our analysis deviates from the usual mean analysis and investigates employment, hours worked and earnings for males and females, as well as their combined family earnin… Show more

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“…2 Not only earnings or wages of immigrants have been investigated in the literature, but also employment, labour force participation, and self employment. More recently, researchers have investigated the assimilation patterns of family of immigrants for Canada (Baker and Benjamin (1997)), the US (Blau et al (2003)), Australia (Meng and Gregory (2005)), and Britain (Dustmann and Fabbri (2005)). …”
Section: Previous Literature and Data Previous Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…2 Not only earnings or wages of immigrants have been investigated in the literature, but also employment, labour force participation, and self employment. More recently, researchers have investigated the assimilation patterns of family of immigrants for Canada (Baker and Benjamin (1997)), the US (Blau et al (2003)), Australia (Meng and Gregory (2005)), and Britain (Dustmann and Fabbri (2005)). …”
Section: Previous Literature and Data Previous Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second and more importantly, unlike the previous paper which uses cross sectional data (and thus cannot effectively control for unobserved individual effects such as work ethic or ability), this paper uses panel data to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity. Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of controlling for unobserved individual heterogeneity in modelling labour market outcomes of immigrants in Australia (Cobb-Clark et al 2012;Breunig et al 2013), Canada (Hum & Simpson 2004), Germany (Fertig & Schurer 2007) and the US (Borjas 1985;Hu 2000;Duleep & Dowhan 2002;Dustmann & Fabbri 2005;Lubotsky 2007;Abramitzky et al 2014). This paper thus provides another robustness check for whether the previous findings change when individual fixed effects are accounted for.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 66%
“…Researchers have used data on immigrants' work hours to investigate other aspects of labor supply models. Dustmann and Fabri (2005) examined the heterogeneity of immigrant couples' labor supply conditional on their ethnicity and the husbands' earnings potential in the U.K. using the LFS. They found that non-white immigrant husbands and wives worked more than white natives and that the labor supply differences were largest for households where the husbands had the lowest wages.…”
Section: Work Hoursmentioning
confidence: 99%