Earning Patterns of Asian Women in Traditional and New Immigrant Gateways

The purpose of this thesis is to examine if there are any variation in earnings of Asian women living in traditional immigrant gateways (New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles) and new immigrant gateways (Atlanta, Phoenix, San Jose, Washington, D.C. and Dallas) as compared to non-Hispanic white women. The sample for the thesis is drawn from American Community Survey (ACS) 2005-2009, 5-year sample. The sample is restricted to female workers, between the ages of 16-64 years, having positive annual earnings. The thesis reveals that in traditional immigrant gateways, Chinese and Korean earned less compared to white women. On the contrary, in new immigrant gateways, all Asian groups except for Korean have higher earnings than white women. Furthermore, the results of this thesis reveals that difference in earnings attainment does exist across the five Asian groups in both traditional and new immigrant gateways. Therefore, supporting the notion that the experiences of Asian subgroups are different and require separate analysis.

Author

• Khurana, Mansee

Language

• en

Keyword

• immigrant women
• new immigrant gateways
• ethnicity race
• traditional immigrant gateways
• earnings
• Asian

Date created

• 2012

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Sociology

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Ishizawa, Hiromi

Committee Member(s)

• Ken, Ivy

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/w0892b26h