The Earnings and Human Capital Investment of Southeast Asian Refugee Men: The 1975–1980 Cohort

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 19 in Human Capital Investment, 2020, pp 211-221 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Indochinese refugee men who entered the United States between 1975 and 1980 began their New World lives at much lower earnings than the developing country Asian immigrants studied in Chap. 7 . Their 1979 median earnings are 38% of U.S.-born natives’ earnings versus 53% for the developing-country Asian immigrants. Despite lower education levels, their earnings increase 97% from 1979 to 1989 reaching 77% of the median earnings for U.S. natives of the same age. The largest of the Indochinese ethnic groups, the Vietnamese, reach 92% of the median earnings of U.S.-born men. They attend school at rates that equal or exceed the attendance rates of the developing-country Asian immigrants, whose rates exceed those of U.S. natives. Although school attendance decreases with age for U.S. natives, the higher school attendance of the Indochinese persists regardless of age.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47083-8_19

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