Human Capital Investment

Harriet Duleep (hduleep@wm.edu), Mark C. Regets (mregets@scipolicy.com), Seth Sanders (seth.sanders@cornell.edu) and Phanindra V. Wunnava (wunnava@middlebury.edu)
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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 9 in Human Capital Investment, 2020, pp 95-106 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We investigate three forms of human capital investment—English proficiency, job changes, and formal classroom education. We measure these for the cohort of immigrant men who entered the U.S. in 1975–1980. We measure initial levels using the 1980 census and growth rates using the difference between levels in the 1980 and 1990 census. Generally, we find that the percentage of proficient English speakers for Asians grew more than the corresponding gain for West European immigrants from non-English-speaking countries. With time in the U.S., immigrant men from Asian developing countries move to white collar and professional occupations more often than similar men from Europe. Finally, we find that for most groups of immigrant men from Asian developing countries, ages 25–34, enrollment rates in school are more than double the rates of otherwise similar European immigrants in 1980; this pattern persists ten years later. All three factors point to higher human capital investment among immigrants from Asian developing countries.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47083-8_9

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