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Harriet Duleep

College of William and Mary, USA, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor articles are a perfect introduction to the data and science related to many policy issues

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Author

Current position

Research Professor of Public Policy, Program in Public Policy, College of William and Mary, USA

Research interest

Migration, poverty/mortality, discrimination

Website

https://www.wm.edu/as/publicpolicy/people/affiliate-scholars/duleep_harriet.php

Past positions

Principal Research Associate, Urban Institute, Population Studies Center, 1992–2007

Qualifications

PhD Economics, MIT, 1986

Selected publications

  • "Migration and the labor force." In: Ritzer, G. (ed.). The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2016.

  • “The adjustment of immigrants in the labor market.” In: Chiswick, B. R., and P. Miller (eds). Handbook of the Economics of International Migration. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014; pp.105–182.

  • “US immigration policy at a crossroads: Should the US continue its family-friendly policy?” International Migration Review 48:3 (2014): 823–845 (with M. Regets).

  • “Research on immigrant earnings.” Social Security Bulletin 68:1 (2008): 31–50 (with D. Dowhan).

  • “Adding immigrants to microsimulation models.” Social Security Bulletin 68:1 (2008): 51–66 (with D. Dowhan).

article(s)

  • Family-friendly and human-capital-based immigration policy

    Shifting the focus from immigrants’ initial earnings to their propensity to invest in human capital

    Harriet DuleepMark Regets, October 2017
    Immigrants who start with low earnings, such as family-based immigrants, experience higher earnings growth than immigrants who are recruited for specific jobs (employment-based immigrants). This occurs because family-based immigrants with lower initial earnings invest in human capital at higher rates than natives or employment-based immigrants. Therefore, immigrants who start at low initial earnings invest in new human capital that allows them to respond to the ever-changing needs of the host country’s economy.
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