Keywords
participation
Latin American women
Caribbean women
United States
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Abstract
This article analyzes the factors that determine the economic participation of Latin American, Caribbean, native Non Hispanic White, and African American married women in the United States. Information from the American Community Survey ( ACS-2008) is used to describe the characteristics of their participation, and a probit model is utilized to establish some of the factors that determine it. Apart from the introduction and conclusion, the article is organized into four parts: the first presents some of the antecedents of the labor participation of Latin American and Caribbean immigrant women in the us; the second is an analysis of certain theories about their participation; the third part focuses on their socioeconomic characteristics; and in the fourth part, the determining factors for the economic participation of married women are examined.
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