Labor Market Assimilation of Immigrant Women
利用1970、1980和1990年美国人口普查数据，研究发现传统横截面方法高估了移民女性劳动参与的同化效应，而队列方法显示同化效应仍显著，尤其集中在抵达后头10年，且来自日本、韩国和中国的移民同化程度最高。
Using 1970, 1980, and 1990 U.S. census data, the author examines the life-cycle patterns of immigrant women's labor force participation. He finds that the cross-sectional approach that has been used in all previous studies leads to a substantial over-estimate of the degree to which immigrant women's assimilation increases their labor force participation. The effect of assimilation found by using the cohort approach (which acknowledges the possibility that patterns of labor force participation partly reflect the year of immigration), however, is still sizable. The effect is concentrated within the first 10 years after arrival. There are substantial differences in participation and assimilation by country of birth. Immigrants from Japan, Korea, and China are found to have experienced the greatest degree of assimilation, with an effect that raises the probability of working by 20 percentage points during the first 10 years after arriving in the United States.