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

In: Human Capital Investment

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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)

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.

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  • Harriet Duleep & Mark C. Regets & Seth Sanders & Phanindra V. Wunnava, 2020. "The Earnings Profiles of Immigrant Men in Specific Asian Groups: Cross-Sectional Versus Cohort-Based Estimates," Springer Books, in: Human Capital Investment, chapter 0, pages 65-79, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-47083-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47083-8_7
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