A woman’s touch? Female migration and economic development in the United States

Berlepsch, Viola, Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés ORCID: 0000-0002-8041-0856 and Lee, Neil ORCID: 0000-0002-4138-7163 (2018) A woman’s touch? Female migration and economic development in the United States. Regional Studies. ISSN 0034-3404

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Does the economic effect of immigrant women differ from that of immigrants in general? This paper examines if gender has influenced the short- and long-term economic impact of mass migration to the US, using Census microdata from 1880 and 1910. By means of ordinary least squares and instrumental variable estimations, the analysis shows that a greater concentration of immigrant women is significantly associated with lower levels of economic development in US counties. However, immigrant women also shaped economic development positively, albeit indirectly via their children. Communities with more children born to foreign mothers and that successfully managed to integrate female immigrants experienced greater economic growth than those dominated by children of foreign-born fathers or American-born parents.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cres20
Additional Information:	© 2018 Taylor & Francis
Divisions:	Geography & Environment
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
JEL classification:	F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F22 - International Migration J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J16 - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O15 - Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R2 - Household Analysis > R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
Date Deposited:	20 Apr 2018 09:08
Last Modified:	29 Feb 2024 19:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87582

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