Towing Norms through the American Dream

No 15847, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment, in which Soviet Jewish immigrants were quasi-randomly allocated of to the U.S. and Israel. I find that young women who immigrated as children follow similar fertility profiles in the two host countries. In Israel, they are also similar to native-born women by exercising almost no selection into motherhood and postnatal labor force participation. By contrast, and away from native-born American women, immigrants to the U.S. either combine family and career or become low-educated non-working mothers. This non-trivial segregation arises from a combination of the American Dream with origin-determined fertility norms.

Keywords: immigration; Soviet Jews; female labor force participation; immigrant fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2023-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-int, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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