Educated and Staying at Home

Asian Immigrant Wives' Labor Force Participation in the U.S

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ID3004495
AuthorsMegumi Omori (Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400 E. 2nd Street, Bloomsburg, PA 17815 USA ()., corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume47
Issue4
Pages463-481
Publication date2016-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.47.4.463
OpenAlexW2758326136
LanguageEN
Citations received5

An increasing number of immigrants come from Asian countries to the U.S. Little scholarly attention has been paid to the labor force participation of recent immigrant wives from these countries. By using the New Immigration Survey 2003 (Jasso, Massey, Rosenzweig, & Smith, 2005), this paper examines labor force participation of immigrant women from eastern and central Asian countries. Logistic regression results show that their own educational attainment and prior experience in professional occupation are not a significant predictor of their labor force participation, while their location of education as well as their English proficiently are found to be significant predictors. Moreover, the study found that their reason to migrate significantly influenced their likelihood of labor force participation. These results imply that unlike U.S. born women, the human capital approach does not apply in predicting labor force participation for recent Asian immigrant wives

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Human capital · Immigration · Logistic regression · Political science · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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