Human Capital Investment

Human Capital Investment

A History of Asian Immigrants and Their Family Ties

Regets, Mark C.; Duleep, Harriet; Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Sanders, Seth

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

02/2022

270

Mole

Inglês

9783030470852

15 a 20 dias

394

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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.
Human Capital;Human Capital Investment;Asian Immigrants;US Immigration;1965 Immigration and Nationality Act;Family unification;Migration;earnings growth;immigrant earnings growth