Following Cohorts and Individuals Over Time: Work Decisions of Married Immigrant Women

Harriet Duleep (), Mark C. Regets (), Seth Sanders () and Phanindra V. Wunnava ()
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Harriet Duleep: William & Mary
Mark C. Regets: National Foundation for American Policy
Seth Sanders: Cornell University
Phanindra V. Wunnava: Middlebury College

Chapter Chapter 14 in Human Capital Investment, 2020, pp 157-167 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract To test the Family Investment Model (FIM), we follow cohorts and individuals over time. Consistent with the FIM, women in the Asian developing country groups are more likely to work than West Europeans or Canadians during their initial U.S. years. Contradicting the FIM, the same pattern persists ten years later. To further test the cohort-based results, we exploit a feature of the decennial census to follow the same individuals. Our longitudinal analyses show that the relatively high propensity to work of Asian immigrant women does not decrease with time in the U.S. The strong positive correlation between the adjusted earnings gap for men and the propensity to work of immigrant women helps offset the low initial earnings of immigrant men from Asian developing countries.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47083-8_14

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