Human capital investment : a history of Asian immigrants and their family ties / Harriet Duleep, Mark C. Regets, Seth Sanders, Phanindra V. Wunnava.
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt, author.; Regets, Mark C., author.; Sanders, Seth, 1962- author.; Wunnava, Phanindra V., author.
2020
E184.A75 D85 2020
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Title Human capital investment : a history of Asian immigrants and their family ties / Harriet Duleep, Mark C. Regets, Seth Sanders, Phanindra V. Wunnava.
Author Duleep, Harriet Orcutt, author.
ISBN 3030470830 electronic book
9783030470845
3030470849
9783030470852
3030470857
9783030470838 (electronic bk.)
9783030470821
3030470822
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47083-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature, [2020]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-47083-8 doi
Call Number E184.A75 D85 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.87305
Summary In 1965, a family-reunification policy for admitting immigrants to the United States replaced a system that chose immigrants based on their national origin. With this change, a 40-year hiatus in Asian immigration ended. Today, over three-quarters of US immigrants originate from Asia and Latin America. Two issues that dominate discussions of US immigration policy are the progress of post-reform immigrants and their contributions to the US economy. This book focuses on the earnings and human capital investment of Asian immigrants to the US after 1965. In addition, it provides a primer on studying immigrant economic assimilation, by explaining economists methodology to measure immigrant earnings growth and the challenges with this approach. The book also illustrates strategies to more fully use census data such as how to measure family income and how to use panel data that is embedded in the census. The book is a historical study as well as an extremely timely work from a policy angle. The passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act set the United States apart among economically developed countries due to the weight given to family unification. Based on analyses by economistswhich suggest that the quality of immigrants to the US fell after the 1965 lawpolicymakers have called for fundamental changes in the US system to align it with the immigration systems of other countries. This book offers an alternative view point by proposing a richer model that incorporates investments in human capital by immigrants and their families. It challenges the conventional model in three ways: First, it views the decline in immigrants entry earnings after 1965 as due to investment in human capital, not to permanently lower quality. Second, it adds human capital investment and earnings growth after entry to the model. And finally, by taking investments by family members into account, it challenges the policy recommendation that immigrants should be selected for their occupational qualifications rather than family connections.
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Sanders, Seth, 1962- author.
Wunnava, Phanindra V., author.
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1. Introduction: Background and Overview
2. What Caused the Decline in Immigrant Entry Earnings?
3. The Immigrant Human Capital Investment Model
4. Methodological Implications of a Human Capital Investment Perspective
5. The Earnings Growth of Asian versus European Immigrants
6. The Earnings Profiles of Immigrant Men in Specific Asian Groups
7. Modeling the Effect of a Factor Associated with Low Skill Transferability: Family Admissions and Immigrant Earnings Profiles
8. Human Capital Investment
9. Permanence and the Propensity to Invest
10. Family Income
11. Exploring Conventional Explanations for the High Labor Force Participation of Women in the Asian Developing-Country Groups
12. Husbands and Wives: Work Decisions in a Family Investment Model
13. Following Cohorts of Married Immigrant Women
14. Unpaid Family Labor
15. Beyond the Immediate Family
16. Entry Earnings, Earnings Growth, and Human Capital Investment: The 1985-90 and 1995-2000 Cohorts
17. The Impact of Refugee Status
18. The Earnings and Human Capital Investment of South East Asian Refugees: The 1975-1980 Cohort
19. The Economic Status of Married Refugee Women from South East Asia: The 1975-1980 Cohort
20. Refugee Entrants from South East Asia a Decade after the War: The 1985-1990 Cohort
21. A Longer Perspective on Initial Conditions and Immigrant Adjustment
22. Concluding Remarks.

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