Self-Selection in Employment of Chinese Immigrants and Its Impact on the U.S. Labor Market Público

Abstract

This paper sets Chinese immigrants as research subjects, classifies immigrants into self- employed and offered-employed in order to correspond to the two self-selection patterns - “self-employment” and “offered employment” and further divides “self-employed” into “general self-employed” and “entrepreneur”. In consideration of economic income, economic expenditure, and human and social capitals, data from Chinese immigrants based in California was used. Information was combined with the data from the U.S. census and other information to complete the study of self-selection effect in employment and its impact on the U.S. labor market.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction .............................................................................................................................................1

II. Research setting and modeling............................................................................................................2

(1) Research setting.......................................................................................................................2

(2) Description of Model and Estimation Method....................................................................

3 1. Construction of Selection Equation...........................................................................4

2. Construction of Expected Income Equation and Generalized Roy model...........7

3. Description of Estimation Method .........................................................................8

III. An empirical analysis of self-selection in the employment of Chinese immigrants..................11

(1) Data.........................................................................................................................................11

(2) Variable description and cleaning ......................................................................................11

(3) An empirical analysis of self-selection in employment of Chinese immigrants............13

1. Descriptive statistical analysis..................................................................................13

2. Overall sample regression analysis .........................................................................16

3. Sub-sample regression analysis...............................................................................19

IV. An empirical analysis of Chinese immigrants’ impact on the U.S. labor market.......................24

1. Analysis of the income gap between immigrants and the native Americans based on different educational backgrounds...........................................................................................25

IV. Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................28 References................................................................................................................................................30

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School	Emory College
Department	Quantitative Science
Degree	B.S.
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Political Science, International Relations Economics, Labor Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations
Palavra-chave	Immigration Chinese Labor Market Employment
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Zhongjian Lin, Emory University
Committee Members	Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University Sam Cherribi, Emory University

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