Harriet Orcutt Duleep
Biographic Data
| ID | 994166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Orcutt Duleep |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet Orcutt |
| FAMILY NAME | Duleep |
| SIGNATURE | DULEEP H O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Urban Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated
Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the USA have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men, following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that the post-1965 immigrants have low initial earnings and low earnings growth. We describe the methodological issues that create this divide and show that low earnings growth becomes high earnings gr…
Immigration and the Labor Force
This entry examines how immigrants fare in their adopted country's labor market and their effect on the native‐born workforce. Illuminating the first issue requires measuring immigrant earnings growth. When no assumptions are imposed, an inverse relationship between immigrant entry earnings and earnings growth emerges: recent immigrants in the United States and Canada have low initial earnings, relative to natives and earlier immigrant cohorts, b…
U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
An ongoing debate is whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admission system, which favors visas for family members of U.S. citizens and residents, or adopt a more skills-based system, replacing family visas with employment-based visas. In many ways, this is a false dichotomy: family-friendly policies attract highly-skilled immigrants regardless of their own visa path, and there are not strong reasons why a loosening of restrictions on…
Migration and the Labor Force
The labor force includes those who work and those who are unemployed but wish to work. It is typically defined for a nation as a whole, or for a demographic or geographic subgroup within a nation. Migration is the movement of people across borders. If the borders are within a country, the migration is called internal or domestic migration, or simply migration. If the borders divide countries, it is international migration, with “immigration” deno…
Insights from Longitudinal Data on the Earnings Growth of U.S. Foreign-Born Men
Does the growth in earnings of foreign-born men exceed that of U.S. natives? We use longitudinal data on earnings from a Social Security Administration (SSA) database matched to the 1994 March Current Population Survey to shed new light on this important issue. We also examine the trend over time in the foreign-born men's earnings growth and illuminate the various ways that SSA data can be used to explore the earnings patterns of immigrants
Insights from longitudinal data on the earnings growth of U.S. foreign-born men
Does the growth in earnings of foreign-born men exceed that of U.S. natives? We use longitudinal data on earnings from a Social Security Administration (SSA) database matched to the 1994 March Current Population Survey to shed new light on this important issue. We also examine the trend over time in the foreign-born men’s earnings growth and illuminate the various ways that SSA data can be used to explore the earnings patterns of immigrants
Immigrants and Human-Capital Investment
The following question is approached theoretically and empirically: Why do immigrants invest more in human capital than the native-born, and how do investment patterns vary by type of immigrant? It is found that greater immigrant human capital investment is due to the lower opportunity costs of investment by immigrants lacking US-specific skills and the role of untransferred human capital as a factor of production for destination-country skills, …
The family investment model
Has the US mortality differential by socioeconomic status increased over time
Has the US mortality differential by socioeconomic status increased over time? H O DuleepCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.7.1125 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Measuring immigrant wage growth using matched CPS files
Cross-sectional estimates of immigrant wage growth have painted an optimistic picture of the ability of immigrants to adapt to the U.S. labor market: Studies using cross-sectional data have generally found the wage growth of immigrants to exceed that of the native born. This optimistic picture of immigrant economic assimilation was challenged by the important finding that compared to earlier immigrant cohorts, recent immigrants started at much lo…
Admission Criteria and Immigrant Earnings Profiles
There has been an ongoing concern about the productivity of kinship-based immigrants in the U.S. labor market. Despite the policy importance of this issue, little empirical or theoretical attention has been devoted to learning the effect of different admission criteria on immigrants’ economic performance. To estimate the effect of admission criteria on immigrant earnings profiles, we use 1980 census data on individuals matched to Immigration and …
Admission Criteria and Immigrant Earnings Profiles
There has been an ongoing concern about the productivity of kinship-based immigrants in the U.S. labor market. Despite the policy importance of this issue, little empirical or theoretical attention has been devoted to learning the effect of different admission criteria on immigrants' economic performance. To estimate the effect of admission criteria on immigrant earnings profiles we use 1980 census data on individuals matched to Immigration and N…
Mass Immigration and the National Interest
Immigration and the Work Force
The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women
Using 1980 Census data, the authors analyze the labor force participation of married immigrant Asian women by country of origin, compared with that of married immigrant women from Europe and Canada. The results suggest the existence of a family investment strategy: evidence from both across groups and within groups indicates that a woman's decision to work is affected by whether she has a husband who invests in skills specific to the U.S. labor m…
Civil Rights in Metropolitan America
This paper focuses on three areas of civil rights policy: housing, education, and employment. The authors describe the current state of discrimination and/or segregation and analyze their costs, diagnose past failures of public policies, and propose new strategies. Both antidiscrimination and prointegration policies are recommended. The authors argue that one cannot proceed effectively without the other. They show how interconnections between the…
Measuring socioeconomic mortality differentials over time
Using 1973 Current Population Survey data matched to 1973–1978 Social Security mortality records, this study measures the relationship between the income and education of men and their subsequent mortality. The estimated relationships are compared with socioeconomic mortality differentials found by Kitagawa and Hauser in their study of 1960 census-death certificate matched data. The comparison suggests that there has been no improvement in the re…
Implications for social security policy‐making of research in mortality 1
The main purpose of this article is to outline the relationship between mortality research and policy-making in social security. Reasons are first discussed as to why more information is needed for social security purposes on how and why mortality varies over time periods and across population groups. There follows a synopsis of the correspondence between the type of policy question asked and the kind of research required to answer it. The paper …
The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women
Using 1980 Census data, the authors analyze the labor force participation of married immigrant Asian women by country of origin, compared with that of married immigrant women from Europe and Canada. The results suggest the existence of a family investment strategy: evidence from both across groups and within groups indicates that a woman's decision to work is affected by whether she has a husband who invests in skills specific to the U.S. labor m…
Insights from longitudinal data on the earnings growth of U.S. foreign-born men
Does the growth in earnings of foreign-born men exceed that of U.S. natives? We use longitudinal data on earnings from a Social Security Administration (SSA) database matched to the 1994 March Current Population Survey to shed new light on this important issue. We also examine the trend over time in the foreign-born men’s earnings growth and illuminate the various ways that SSA data can be used to explore the earnings patterns of immigrants
Measuring immigrant wage growth using matched CPS files
Cross-sectional estimates of immigrant wage growth have painted an optimistic picture of the ability of immigrants to adapt to the U.S. labor market: Studies using cross-sectional data have generally found the wage growth of immigrants to exceed that of the native born. This optimistic picture of immigrant economic assimilation was challenged by the important finding that compared to earlier immigrant cohorts, recent immigrants started at much lo…
Measuring socioeconomic mortality differentials over time
Using 1973 Current Population Survey data matched to 1973–1978 Social Security mortality records, this study measures the relationship between the income and education of men and their subsequent mortality. The estimated relationships are compared with socioeconomic mortality differentials found by Kitagawa and Hauser in their study of 1960 census-death certificate matched data. The comparison suggests that there has been no improvement in the re…
Admission Criteria and Immigrant Earnings Profiles
There has been an ongoing concern about the productivity of kinship-based immigrants in the U.S. labor market. Despite the policy importance of this issue, little empirical or theoretical attention has been devoted to learning the effect of different admission criteria on immigrants’ economic performance. To estimate the effect of admission criteria on immigrant earnings profiles, we use 1980 census data on individuals matched to Immigration and …
The family investment model
Civil Rights in Metropolitan America
This paper focuses on three areas of civil rights policy: housing, education, and employment. The authors describe the current state of discrimination and/or segregation and analyze their costs, diagnose past failures of public policies, and propose new strategies. Both antidiscrimination and prointegration policies are recommended. The authors argue that one cannot proceed effectively without the other. They show how interconnections between the…
Admission Criteria and Immigrant Earnings Profiles
There has been an ongoing concern about the productivity of kinship-based immigrants in the U.S. labor market. Despite the policy importance of this issue, little empirical or theoretical attention has been devoted to learning the effect of different admission criteria on immigrants' economic performance. To estimate the effect of admission criteria on immigrant earnings profiles we use 1980 census data on individuals matched to Immigration and N…
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated
Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the USA have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men, following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that the post-1965 immigrants have low initial earnings and low earnings growth. We describe the methodological issues that create this divide and show that low earnings growth becomes high earnings gr…
U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
An ongoing debate is whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admission system, which favors visas for family members of U.S. citizens and residents, or adopt a more skills-based system, replacing family visas with employment-based visas. In many ways, this is a false dichotomy: family-friendly policies attract highly-skilled immigrants regardless of their own visa path, and there are not strong reasons why a loosening of restrictions on…
Implications for social security policy‐making of research in mortality 1
The main purpose of this article is to outline the relationship between mortality research and policy-making in social security. Reasons are first discussed as to why more information is needed for social security purposes on how and why mortality varies over time periods and across population groups. There follows a synopsis of the correspondence between the type of policy question asked and the kind of research required to answer it. The paper …
Measuring socioeconomic mortality differentials over time
Using 1973 Current Population Survey data matched to 1973–1978 Social Security mortality records, this study measures the relationship between the income and education of men and their subsequent mortality. The estimated relationships are compared with socioeconomic mortality differentials found by Kitagawa and Hauser in their study of 1960 census-death certificate matched data. The comparison suggests that there has been no improvement in the re…
Civil Rights in Metropolitan America
This paper focuses on three areas of civil rights policy: housing, education, and employment. The authors describe the current state of discrimination and/or segregation and analyze their costs, diagnose past failures of public policies, and propose new strategies. Both antidiscrimination and prointegration policies are recommended. The authors argue that one cannot proceed effectively without the other. They show how interconnections between the…
The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women
Using 1980 Census data, the authors analyze the labor force participation of married immigrant Asian women by country of origin, compared with that of married immigrant women from Europe and Canada. The results suggest the existence of a family investment strategy: evidence from both across groups and within groups indicates that a woman's decision to work is affected by whether she has a husband who invests in skills specific to the U.S. labor m…
Mass Immigration and the National Interest
Immigration and the Work Force
Admission Criteria and Immigrant Earnings Profiles
There has been an ongoing concern about the productivity of kinship-based immigrants in the U.S. labor market. Despite the policy importance of this issue, little empirical or theoretical attention has been devoted to learning the effect of different admission criteria on immigrants’ economic performance. To estimate the effect of admission criteria on immigrant earnings profiles, we use 1980 census data on individuals matched to Immigration and …
Admission Criteria and Immigrant Earnings Profiles
There has been an ongoing concern about the productivity of kinship-based immigrants in the U.S. labor market. Despite the policy importance of this issue, little empirical or theoretical attention has been devoted to learning the effect of different admission criteria on immigrants' economic performance. To estimate the effect of admission criteria on immigrant earnings profiles we use 1980 census data on individuals matched to Immigration and N…
Measuring immigrant wage growth using matched CPS files
Cross-sectional estimates of immigrant wage growth have painted an optimistic picture of the ability of immigrants to adapt to the U.S. labor market: Studies using cross-sectional data have generally found the wage growth of immigrants to exceed that of the native born. This optimistic picture of immigrant economic assimilation was challenged by the important finding that compared to earlier immigrant cohorts, recent immigrants started at much lo…
The family investment model
Has the US mortality differential by socioeconomic status increased over time
Has the US mortality differential by socioeconomic status increased over time? H O DuleepCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.7.1125 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Immigrants and Human-Capital Investment
The following question is approached theoretically and empirically: Why do immigrants invest more in human capital than the native-born, and how do investment patterns vary by type of immigrant? It is found that greater immigrant human capital investment is due to the lower opportunity costs of investment by immigrants lacking US-specific skills and the role of untransferred human capital as a factor of production for destination-country skills, …
Insights from Longitudinal Data on the Earnings Growth of U.S. Foreign-Born Men
Does the growth in earnings of foreign-born men exceed that of U.S. natives? We use longitudinal data on earnings from a Social Security Administration (SSA) database matched to the 1994 March Current Population Survey to shed new light on this important issue. We also examine the trend over time in the foreign-born men's earnings growth and illuminate the various ways that SSA data can be used to explore the earnings patterns of immigrants
Insights from longitudinal data on the earnings growth of U.S. foreign-born men
Does the growth in earnings of foreign-born men exceed that of U.S. natives? We use longitudinal data on earnings from a Social Security Administration (SSA) database matched to the 1994 March Current Population Survey to shed new light on this important issue. We also examine the trend over time in the foreign-born men’s earnings growth and illuminate the various ways that SSA data can be used to explore the earnings patterns of immigrants
Migration and the Labor Force
The labor force includes those who work and those who are unemployed but wish to work. It is typically defined for a nation as a whole, or for a demographic or geographic subgroup within a nation. Migration is the movement of people across borders. If the borders are within a country, the migration is called internal or domestic migration, or simply migration. If the borders divide countries, it is international migration, with “immigration” deno…
U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
An ongoing debate is whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admission system, which favors visas for family members of U.S. citizens and residents, or adopt a more skills-based system, replacing family visas with employment-based visas. In many ways, this is a false dichotomy: family-friendly policies attract highly-skilled immigrants regardless of their own visa path, and there are not strong reasons why a loosening of restrictions on…
Immigration and the Labor Force
This entry examines how immigrants fare in their adopted country's labor market and their effect on the native‐born workforce. Illuminating the first issue requires measuring immigrant earnings growth. When no assumptions are imposed, an inverse relationship between immigrant entry earnings and earnings growth emerges: recent immigrants in the United States and Canada have low initial earnings, relative to natives and earlier immigrant cohorts, b…
How the earnings growth of US immigrants was underestimated
Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the USA have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men, following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that the post-1965 immigrants have low initial earnings and low earnings growth. We describe the methodological issues that create this divide and show that low earnings growth becomes high earnings gr…
Economics (15 works) · Demographic economics (13 works) · Immigration (13 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Earnings (8 works) · Population (8 works)