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    Source-country Female Labour Force Participation and the Wages of Immigrant Women in Canada

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    Batalova, J.A., and P.N. Cohen. 2002. “Premarital Cohabitation and Housework: Couples in Cross-National Perspective.” Journal of Marriage and Family 64 (3): 743–55.

    Blau, F.D., L.M. Kahn and K.L. Papps. 2008. Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants: 1980-2000. IZA Discussion Paper No. 3725 (September). Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor.

    Blau, F.D., L.M. Kahn and K.L. Papps. 2011. “Gender, Source Country Characteristics, and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 93 (1): 43–58.

    Boyd, M., and D. Thomas. 2002. “Skilled Immigrant Labour: Country of Origin and the Occupational Locations of Male Engineers.” Canadian Studies in Population 29 (1): 71–99.

    Christie-Mizell, C.A. 2006. “The effects of traditional family and gender ideology on earnings: Race and gender differences.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues 27 (1): 48–70.

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    Firestone, J.M., R.J. Harris and L.C. Lambert. 1999. “Gender role ideology and the gender based differences in earnings.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues 20 (2): 191–215.

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    Frank, K., and F. Hou. 2013. Cultural Influences Across Time and Space: Do Source-country Gender Roles Affect Immigrant Women’s Paid and Unpaid Labour Activity? Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series, no. 349. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 11F0019M. Ottawa: Statistics Canada.

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    Jaumotte, F. 2003. Female Labour Force Participation: Past Trends and Main Determinants in OECD Countries. Economics Department Working Papers, no. 376. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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    Nieuwenhuis, R., A. Need, and H. Van der Kolk. 2012. “Institutional and demographic explanations of women’s employment in 18 OECD countries, 1975–1999.” Journal of Marriage and Family 74: 614–630.

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 2004. Female Labour Force Participation: Past Trends and Main Determinants in OECD Countries. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Economics Department. May. p. 1–16.

    Picot, G. 2004. “The Deteriorating Economic Welfare of Canadian Immigrants.” Canadian Journal of Urban Research 13 (1): 25–46.

    Polachek, S.W. 2004. How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed. IZA Discussion Paper No. 1102 (April). Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor.

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    Thompson, E.N. 2000. Immigrant Occupational Skill Outcomes and the Role of Region-of-origin-specific Human Capital. Working Paper Series, no. W-00-8E. Gatineau, Quebec: Human Resources Development Canada: Applied Research Branch, Strategic Policy.

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    Wooldridge, J.M. 2003. “Cluster-Sample Methods in Applied Econometrics.” The American Economic Review 93 (2): 133–138.

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