Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295635 
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Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 02/21
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the effect of immigration on gender gaps in the labor market. Using an equilibrium structural model for the U.S. economy, I simulate the importance of two mechanisms: the differential labor market competition induced by immigration on male and female workers, and the availability of cheaper child care services. Consistent with the literature, aggregate effects on gender and participation gaps are negligible. However, female are more negatively affected by labor market competition, even though these effects are compensated from the cheaper-childcare effect. This generates heterogeneity in the effects along the skill distribution: gender gaps are increased at the bottom of the distribution and reduced at the top. Human capital adjustments are also heterogeneous.
Subjects: 
Gender Gaps
Immigration
Human Capital
Child-care Cost
Competition
Equilibrium
JEL: 
J16
J2
J31
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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