Care-providing parents of immigrants fill a labor market niche in the receiving economy. My research examines the intergenerational support for working women in immigrant families in the United States. Using panel data derived from the Current Population Survey (CPS), I find that having a...

The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio-demographic policy changes, this cohort of...

The goal of this study is to improve the understanding toward the immigration population in labor market in the Washington MSA, to reveal their strategic strengths and weaknesses, and to provide insights and evidence for more efficient immigration policy. Examination on the flow and stock data...

This chapter aims at an overall portrait of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. using the most update data and information, identifying relevant literature and research sources, filling in the issues of China-born immigrants in the U.S. that the previous literature hasn’t mentioned, as well as...

This working paper highlights two major findings regarding the DC metro area’s immigrant population. The first finding is that the region’s foreign-born population is substantially different from its native born counterpart in many aspects. Overall, the foreign-born population in the region...