Employment and Earnings of Foreign Born Asian Men and Women in the United States, 2000

Veena Kulkarni, University of Maryland

While differential labor market experiences for men and women in the United States have been reasonably well documented, there has not been a comparable body of research for immigrants. Rising levels of immigration call for an analysis of gender differences in the labor market outcomes of foreign born men and women relative to one another and to natives. Immigrant women face a double disadvantage of being both female and minority group members. However, research disaggregated by gender and countries of origin have been lacking, particularly for foreign born Asians, even though it is well acknowledged that they are growing in number and there is a substantial and increasing number of women immigrants from Asia. This paper investigates and compares the employment prospects and earning profiles of Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and non-Hispanic white men and women in the United States for the year 2000.