NDLI: Understanding the workweek of foreign born workers in the United States

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Author	Loza, Fernando A.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the US I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work—50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly educated and salary paid workers, and persists even after conditioning for demographic characteristics. I explain these differences with two within occupation characteristics. First, relative to natives, immigrants are less likely to supply long work weeks if they work in occupations where the immigrant-native earnings differential is big. Second, immigrants are also less likely to supply long work weeks when they work in occupations with a wide dispersion of earnings. This second result is important, because the occupation dispersion of earnings has been used to characterize changes of the worker’s earnings over the worker life cycle (Bell and Freeman, Labour Economics: 8(2), 2001a; Working Time in Comparative Perspective, 2001b; Kuhn and Lozano, Journal of Labor Economics:26(2), 311–344, 2008), and a good measure of the incentives to supply long hours of work.
Starting Page	83
Ending Page	104
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15695239
Journal	Review of Economics of the Household
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737152
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2009-10-09
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Immigrants Labor supply Hours of work Social Sciences Population Economics Labor Economics Microeconomics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences Economics and Econometrics

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