The Earnings Profiles of Immigrant Men in Specific Asian Groups: Cross-Sectional Versus Cohort-Based Estimates

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

Chapter Chapter 7 in Human Capital Investment, 2020, pp 65-79 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We examine the economic assimilation of immigrant men in the non-refugee groups that dominated post-1965 U.S. Asian immigration—Filipinos, Chinese, Koreans, Indians, and Japanese. We begin by analyzing how the entry earnings of these groups changed over time. We then estimate their earnings growth, first across one cross-section—the 1980 census—and then following cohorts across the 1980 and 1990 censuses. While previous studies find that immigrant earning growth rates estimated from a single cross-section are overstated because of a decline in entry earnings over time, we find earnings growth rates estimated from the cross-section are remarkably similar to earnings growth rates estimated by following cohorts across censuses. Key to our findings is the inverse relationship between entry earnings and earnings growth rates which we see because our statistical method allows the earnings growth rate of immigrant groups to vary by their level of entry earnings.

Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-47083-8_7

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030470838

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47083-8_7

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().