Beyond the Immediate Family

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
Phanindra V. Wunnava: Middlebury College

Chapter Chapter 16 in Human Capital Investment, 2020, pp 177-186 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract To the extent that members of the extended family or community facilitate investment in human capital, we would expect immigrants with extended family to have earnings profiles characterized by lower initial earnings and higher growth than immigrants lacking extended family in the United States. Using sibling admissions as a proxy for the presence of extended family, we find for Asian immigrants that sibling admissions negatively affect initial earnings and positively affect earnings’ growth—consistent with the thesis that extended family, or being part of a group nurtured by extended family admissions—aids the human capital investment of individual immigrants. We also find that for Asian immigrant men, the effect of sibling admissions on the propensity to be self-employed exceeds that of any other variable in the analysis.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47083-8_16

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