This article contributes to previous research on immigrant integration by examining how religiosity and gender roles in European countries influence immigrant women’s labor market outcomes. Moreover, we extend theoretical work on the importance of the receiving country’s norms and values by hypothesizing and testing whether receiving countries’ influence varies with immigrant women’s religiosity and gender-role attitudes. Using the European Social Survey data and multilevel regression models, we find that religious immigrant women participate less in the labor market and work fewer hours than nonreligious immigrant women. Immigrant women’s traditional gender-role attitudes partly explain the negative relationship between individual religiosity and labor market outcomes. While the receiving country’s religiosity is negatively related to immigrant women’s labor market outcomes, this negative relationship is significantly weaker for religious and gender-traditional immigrant women than for nonreligious and gender-egalitarian women. These findings suggest that the economic benefits of residing in countries that support female employment are limited to immigrant women who are ready and positioned to embrace gender-egalitarian norms and values.

本文通过研究欧洲国家的宗教信仰和性别角色如何影响移民妇女的劳动力市场成果，为以前的移民融合研究做出了贡献。此外，我们通过假设和检验接受国的影响是否随移民妇女的宗教信仰和性别角色态度而变化，从而扩展了有关接受国规范和价值观重要性的理论工作。使用欧洲社会调查数据和多层回归模型，我们发现，与非宗教移民妇女相比，宗教移民妇女较少参与劳动力市场和工作时间。移民妇女传统的性别角色态度在一定程度上解释了个人宗教信仰与劳动力市场成果之间的负面关系。虽然接受国的宗教信仰与移民妇女的劳动力市场成果负相关，但与非宗教和性别平等的妇女相比，宗教和性别传统移民妇女的这种消极关系要弱得多。这些发现表明，在支持女性就业的国家中居住的经济利益仅限于准备好并且有能力接受性别平等准则和价值观的移民妇女。