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Mark Regets

National Foundation for American Policy, USA, and IZA, Germany

Most academic papers appropriately focus on what their research adds to knowledge about a subject. IZA's World of Labor series provides an opportunity to put many pieces of knowledge together to tell coherent and science-based stories about specific labor-market policies

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Senior Fellow, National Foundation for American Policy, USA

Research interest

Immigration, high skill labor markets, minorities

Website

https://www.iza.org/person/190/mark-regets

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Senior Analyst, National Science Foundation, 1993–2017

Past positions

Adjunct Associate Professor, Georgetown University, 2006–2007

Qualifications

PhD Economics, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1989

Selected publications

  • Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960–2000: A Human Capital Investment Perspective. IZA Discussion Paper No. 8628, 2014 (with H. Duleep, and X. Liu).

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

  • The Civil Rights Act and the Earnings of Lower Income Hispanic Men. Department of Economics, College of William and Mary Working Paper No. 136, 2013 (with H. Duleep).

  • How Immigration May Affect US Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results. IZA Discussion Paper No. 6677, 2012 (with H. Duleep and D. A. Jaeger).

  • The Civil Rights Act and the Earnings of Lower Income Hispanic Men in the 1960s. IZA Discussion Paper No. 6638, 2012 (with H. Duleep).

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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