Gendered Pathways
Employment Behavior among Family-Based and Skill-Based Immigrants in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13103663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rennie Lee (0000-0001-7108-7287, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2378-0231 • E-ISSN: 2378-0231 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/23780231221144354 |
| OpenAlex | W4312302961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 49 |
The United States is the only country to admit the majority of its immigrants on the basis of kinship ties. Although policy makers typically view family migration as less favorable and assume that family immigrants do not contribute to the U.S. economy, this argument is oversimplified and ignores the role of gender and the various ways that family immigration works. This study captures the multiple aspects of immigrants’ entry visas and its intersection with gender to examine the employment behavior of college-educated immigrant men and women who arrived in the United States via several family-based and skill-based categories. Using nationally representative data from 2010, 2013, and 2015 National Survey of College Graduates, the author finds that immigrants’ initial entry pathways into the United States continue to stratify their employment behavior and trajectories, especially for immigrant women. The conditions of family-sponsored immigration matter; temporary migration as a spouse is negatively associated with immigrant women’s employment but not permanent family migration
Argument (complex analysis · Demographic economics · Economics · Family reunification · Family ties · Genealogy · Immigration · Immigration policy · Kinship · Political science · Sociology · Spouse · Employment and Welfare Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects
Vulnerabilities of Highly Skilled Immigrants in Canada and the United States
Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-Born
An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies
Immigration and improvements in American life expectancy
Do Employer-Sponsored Immigrants Fare Better in Labor Markets Than Family-Sponsored Immigrants
The family investment model
Out of Asia
A fine balance
Gender, work and migration
Sorting or Shaping? The Gendered Economic Outcomes of Immigration Policy in Canada
Do Immigrants Screened for Skills Do Better than Family Reunification Immigrants
A Tale of Two Contexts
Pathways to legal immigration
Managing Work and Care
Examining Ethnic Variation in Life Expectancy Among Asians in the United States, 2012–2016
A Family Affair
Starting Points
One Size Fits All? Explaining U.S.-born and Immigrant Women's Employment across 12 Ethnic Groups
Highly skilled dependent migrants entering the labour market
Gender, immigration policies and accreditation
Some people expect women should always be dependent’
Occupational Trajectories of Legal US Immigrants
Gendered Labour Migrations in Europe and Emblematic Migratory Figures
Skill, Migration and Gender in Australia and Canada
Subversive Self-Employment
Family legal status and health
Unauthorized Welfare
Migration as Feminisation? Chinese Women's Experiences of Work and Family in Australia
Admission-Group Salary Differentials in the United States
The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women
Family Migration and Labor Force Outcomes
Overcoming Patriarchal Constraints
Intersectionality at Work
Asian American-White Differences in the Effect of Motherhood on Career Outcomes
Shifts in the Employment Conditions of Mexican Migrant Men and Women
The Estimation of Causal Effects From Observational Data
Motherhood and Employment Among Whites, Hispanics, and Blacks
Source-Country Gender Roles and the Division of Labor Within Immigrant Families
The Complexity of Intersectionality
Migration and stratification
Do Tied Movers Get Tied Down? The Occupational Displacement of Dependent Applicant Immigrants in Canada
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |