TY - CHAP AB - Abstract This study empirically investigates the difference in employment status between marriage immigrants and native women in Taiwan based on a combined dataset from the 2003 Survey of Foreign and Mainland Spouses’ Life Status and 2003 Women’s Marriage, Fertility and Employment Survey. The conceptual framework is based on the family labor supply model, the human and social capital theories, and the immigrant assimilation theory. From the Probit model of the employment probability, our findings indicate that family background variables, including the presence of small children and husbands’ characteristics, play fairly significant roles in determining the employment probability of marriage immigrants. As for native women, human capital variables such as schooling and age are the most significant factors affecting their employment probability, while husbands’ characteristics play a less important role in this respect. The finding that the employment probability of foreign spouses rises rapidly with the number of years that have elapsed since migration may confirm the employment assimilation for marriage immigrants. This study further applies the nonlinear decomposition analysis developed in the work of Yun (2004) to examine the gap in employment probability between native women and foreign spouses in Taiwan. Our findings show that the employment probability differentials are mostly due to the difference in coefficients and that the effects of the two age variables play dominant roles. The difference in coefficients, in sum, contributes to increasing the gap of employment probability, while the difference in characteristics, in sum, tends to reduce the employment probability differentials. VL - 5 SN - 978-1-78743-409-7, 978-1-78743-410-3/2514-4650 DO - 10.1108/S2514-465020170000001006 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2514-465020170000001006 AU - Chuang Hwei-Lin AU - Lin Eric S. PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/01/01 TI - The Employment Status of Marriage Immigrants in Taiwan T2 - Advances in Pacific Basin Business Economics and Finance T3 - Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 121 EP - 150 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -