abstract: 'The behaviour of married immigrant women regarding fertility and labour

  markets is an essential piece to understand the economic and cultural

  integration of immigrant households. However, the contribution of

  married immigrant women to the Canadian labour market was-until

  recently-considered of secondary importance and their labour market

  choices studied within an economic framework of temporary attachment to

  the labour force. Recent research, however, finds that a significant

  fraction of married immigrant women make labour supply decisions (and

  face barriers) similar to those of native-born married women. We show

  that this is the case in Canada as well, by estimating the progress of

  immigrant women over the 2000s. We use traditional measures of labour

  market outcomes, such as participation, employment and wages, but also

  novel estimates of labour market dynamics, such as transitions across

  labour market states to show the work trajectories of married Canadian

  immigrant women. Results show that immigrant women are less likely to

  transition into employment-more likely to transition out of employment

  to either unemployment or inactivity-and more likely to respond to

  income shocks than the Canadian born. There is evidence of a gradual

  convergence with years spent in Canada to the outcomes of the Canadian

  born, which is much slower for immigrant women than immigrant men.'
affiliation: 'Ferrer, A (Corresponding Author), Univ Waterloo, Dept Econ, Waterloo,
  ON, Canada.

  Ferrer, A (Corresponding Author), IZA Inst Labour Econ, Bonn, Germany.

  Ferrer, Ana, Univ Waterloo, Dept Econ, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

  Ferrer, Ana, IZA Inst Labour Econ, Bonn, Germany.

  Pan, Yazhuo (Annie), Univ Toronto, Ctr Ind Relat \& Human Resources, Toronto, ON,
  Canada.

  Schirle, Tammy, Univ Wilfrid Laurier, Dept Econ, Waterloo, ON, Canada.'
author: Ferrer, Ana and Pan, Yazhuo (Annie) and Schirle, Tammy
author-email: aferrer@uwaterloo.ca
author_list:
- family: Ferrer
  given: Ana
- family: Pan
  given: Yazhuo (Annie)
- family: Schirle
  given: Tammy
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s12134-023-01011-1
earlyaccessdate: FEB 2023
eissn: 1874-6365
files: []
issn: 1488-3473
journal: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION
keywords: 'Labour force attachment; Immigrant women; Transition rates between

  labour states; Convergence in labour outcomes'
keywords-plus: LABOR-MARKET ACTIVITY; FAMILY; ASSIMILATION; MIGRATION; EARNINGS
language: English
month: 2023 FEB 25
number-of-cited-references: '31'
orcid-numbers: 'ferrer, ana/0000-0002-7385-2381

  Pan, Annie (Yazhuo)/0000-0002-1025-136X'
papis_id: a11650e4c93500a46f002580b558334b
ref: Ferrer2023worktrajectories
times-cited: '0'
title: The Work Trajectories of Married Canadian Immigrant Women, 2006-2019
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000939394700001
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '1'
web-of-science-categories: Demography
year: '2023'