Education, Occupational Prestige, and Income of Asian Americans

Barringer, Herbert R.; Takeuchi, David T.; Xenos, Peter

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“…As far as the labour market is concerned, 57.6% of the people is employed, 35% is inactive and 6.6% unemployed. Among employed, 40% is working in 3 See, among others, Barringer, Takeuchi and Xenos (1990). 4 Which is in line with the idea that the first international migrants usually do not come from the bottom of the community hierarchy, but from the middle ranges (Massey, 1988).…”

Section: Data and Description Of The Socio-economic Contextmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…For what concerns education level, 49% of foreigners holds at least a college degree, versus 33,2% of Italians. The high education level of migrants is a phenomenon already exploited in many recent works about migration (Barringer, Takeuchi and Xenos 1990, Borjas 2003, Battu and Sloane 2002, Devillanova and Frattini 2006, Gross and Schmitt 2006. What emerges with strength is a situation of over education: migrant workers holds higher education levels than local workers for same job positions.…”

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Education, Reputation or Network? Evidence from Italy on Migrant Workers Employability

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SummaryThe strong adverse selection that immigrants face in hosting labour markets may induce them to adopt some behaviours or signals to modify employers' beliefs. Relevant mechanisms for reaching this purpose are personal reputation; exploiting ethnic networks deeply-rooted in the hosting country; and high educational levels used as an indirect signal of productivity. On this last point, the immigrant status needs a stronger signal compared to that necessary for a local worker, and this may lead the immigrant to accept job qualifications which are lower than those achievable through the embodied educational level. This could explain the over education problem that characterizes many countries, Italy included. The aim of the paper is to investigate whether the above mentioned mechanisms are adopted by immigrants in Italy, a crucial country for EU immigration flows, and if they are useful in increasing immigrants' likelihood of employment. The empirical analysis has been conducted using the dataset from a national Labour Force Survey which provides information on 6,860 documented immigrants. We estimate a logit model for immigrants' likelihood of being employed, focusing on the above mentioned mechanisms: reputation, ethnic networks and educational level. Moreover we concentrate on the interaction effects of the mechanisms and investigate whether one of them wins on the others. Results show that each of the three mechanisms is statistically and economically significant and exerts positive influence: all factors contribute to increasing the immigrant's probability of being employed. Anyway, a high level of education increases the probability of being employed more than the belonging to ethnic networks deeply-rooted in Italy. The specific embodied capital of workers matter relatively more. This is relevant for labour public policies in this specific realm since the human capital lever is a possible direct target of various public policies and private human capital investments. Evidence from Italy on Migrant Workers employability AbstractThe strong adverse selection that immigrants face in hosting labour markets may induce them to adopt some behaviours or signals to modify employers" beliefs. Relevant mechanisms for reaching this purpose are personal reputation; exploiting ethnic networks deeply-rooted in the hosting country; and high educational levels used as an indirect signal of productivity. On this last point, the immigrant status needs a stronger signal compared to that necessary for a local worker, and this may lead the immigrant to accept job qualifications which are lower than those achievable through the embodied educational level. This could explain the over education problem that characterizes many countries, Italy included. The aim of the paper is to investigate whether the above mentioned mechanisms are adopted by immigrants in Italy, a crucial country for EU immigration flows, and if they are useful in increasing immigrants" likelihood of employment. The empirical analysis has been conducted using ...

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Section: Data and Description Of The Socio-economic Contextmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Education, Reputation or Network? Evidence from Italy on Migrant Workers Employability

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“…Barringer, Takeuchi and Xenos (1990) found that most Asian Americans were CHAPTER 18 16 better educated than whites, blacks, and Hispanics. However, after controlling for other variables, only Japanese Americans' income came near to that of whites.…”

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Financial Wellbeing of Asian Americans

Yao

2016

Handbook of Consumer Finance Research

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The Asian American population in the United States has been increasing. Research on the economic wellbeing of this minority group is far from being adequate. It is generally found that Asian Americans are more highly educated and have more wealth. Although the homeownership rate of this population is lower than the national average rate, the gap is gradually narrowing.Asian Americans are found to have more confidence in their financial future and have better management in their financial lives. In addition, Asian-owned businesses have been an important part of the U.S. economy and, as such, the self-employment status of Asian Americans has stimulated great interest for research. Large differences in financial behaviors exist among different groups in Asian Americans. This chapter serves the purpose to summarize past research on Asian American consumer finances and provide directions for future research.

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“…Professional occupations are usually associated with greater prestige, stable career path, and, most importantly, higher income (Barringer, Takeuchi, and Xenos, 1990;Leicht and Fennell, 2001). Because professional occupations usually involve credentials, certification, and regulation by professional associations, there is pressure to develop similar evaluation practices and structures (Dimaggio and Powell, 1983).…”

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confidence: 99%