Human Capital Investment

Harriet Duleep is Research Professor of Public Policy at the College of William and Mary, USA. She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor and the Global Labour Organization.Mark C. Regets is Senior Fellow at the National Foundation for American Policy, USA. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Labor Economics and the Global Labour Organization.Seth Sanders is Professor of Economics at Cornell University, USA. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor. He was previously the Director of the Duke University Population Research Center.Phanindra V. Wunnava is David K. Smith '42 Chair in Applied Economics at Middlebury College, USA. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor and the Global Labour Organization.

• 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.