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Curriculum Vitae Harriet Orcutt Duleep Curriculum Vitae Harriet Orcutt Duleep 4417 Yuma Street, NW, Washington, DC 20016 202-364-8481 (voice); [email protected] (e-mail) Education Ph.D., M.I.T., Department of Economics, 1986. Fields of Concentration: Labor; Econometrics; Human Capital and Income Distribution. Advisers: Jerry Hausman and Lester Thurow, Doctoral Dissertation: Poverty and Inequality of Mortality B.A., University of Michigan, Economics, 1976. Oberlin Conservatory/College, 1973 Professional Experience Research Professor of Public Policy, Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy, College of William and Mary, 2007-present Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, 2000-present Senior Economist, Social Security Administration, Division of Economic Research, 2000-present Deputy Editor, Demography, 2004-2008 Principal Research Associate, Urban Institute, Population Studies Center, 1992-2007. Senior Economist, Acting Director (1990-91), Research Office, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1985-1991 Economist, Social Security Administration, Division of Retirement and Survivor Studies, 1982-1985; Division of Economic Research, 1979-1982 Economic Analyst, Abt Associates, Cambridge, Mass., 1977 Research Associate, Labor Force Behavior of Canadian Women Project, University of Alberta, 1976 Scholarship BOOKS Poverty and Inequality in Mortality: Individual Behaviors, Societal Solutions, book in progress A New Look at Human Capital Investment: A Study of Asian Immigrants and Their Family Ties, with Mark Regets, Seth Sanders, and Phanindra Wunnava, book in progress Immigrants and Immigration Policy: Individual Skills, Family Ties, and Group Identities, co-edited with Phanindra Wunnava. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996 The Economic Status of Americans of Asian Descent, with Seth Sanders, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1988 (Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, March 1990, pp. 209-10, and 1 International Migration Review), http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED309210.pdf The Economic Status of Americans of Southern and Eastern European Ancestry, with Hal Sider, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1986 (Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, March 1989, p. 218 and International Migration Review) http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/cr11089z.pdf Employment and Earnings of Married Females, Census Analytical Monograph, with Alice Nakamura, Masao Nakamura, Dallas Cullen, and Dwight Grant, Statistics Canada, 1979 PUBLISHED ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, AND PAPERS UNDER REVISION FOR PUBLICATION, BY SUBJECT AREA I. Immigration “Immigration and the Labor Force,” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, new updated edition, editor, George Ritzer, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming, 2016. “The Adjustment of Immigrants in the Labor Market,” chapter in Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, eds. Barry R. Chiswick and Paul Miller, Elsevier, 2014, pp.105-182. “U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?” International Migration Review, Volume 48, Issue 3, pp. 823–845, Fall 2014. “Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000: A Human Capital Investment Perspective.” with Xingfei Liu and Mark Regets, under revision for publication, 2015. “Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1960 – 2010,” with Mark Regets, under revision for publication. “The Effect of Admission Criteria on Immigrant Assimilation: 1980 - 2010” with Mark Regets, under revision for publication. “The Economic Impact of Immigration” in Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration, ed. Elliott Robert Barkan, pp. 1703 – 1723 (also available on world wide web; www.abc- clio.com) ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA, 2013 “Migration and the Labor Force,” The Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, online condensed version, editors, George Ritzer and J. Michael Ryan, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2011. “Research on Immigrant Earnings,” with Daniel Dowhan, Social Security Bulletin, 2008, vol. 68, no.1, pp. 31-50 “Adding Immigrants to Microsimulation Models,” with Daniel Dowhan, Social Security Bulletin, 2008, vol. 68, no.1, pp. 51-66 “Incorporating Immigrant Flows into Microsimulation Models,” with Daniel Dowhan, Social Security Bulletin, 2008, vol. 68, no.1, pp. 67-76 2 “Immigrant Skill Transferability and the Propensity to Invest in Human Capital,” Research in Labor Economics, Volume 27: 43-73, reprinted in Immigration: Trends, Consequences and Prospects for the United States, ed. Barry R. Chiswick, IZA, Elsevier, JAI 2008, pp. 43-73 “Migration and the Labor Force,” with Regan Main, Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Editor, George Ritzer, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007 “Insights from Longitudinal Data on the Earnings Growth of U.S. Foreign-born Men,” with Daniel Dowhan, Demography, August 2002 “Immigrants and Human Capital Investment,” with Mark Regets, American Economic Review, May 1999. Reprinted in The Economics of Migration, Editors Klaus Zimmerman and Thomas Bauer, in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Series Editor, Mark Blaug, 2002 “Projecting Immigrant Earnings: The Significance of Country of Origin,” with Mark Regets, Social Security Bulletin, no. 4, 1998, pp. 32-44 “Immigrant Entry Earnings and Human Capital Growth,” with Mark Regets, Research in Labor Economics, vol. 16, 1997, pp. 297-317 “Measuring Immigrant Wage Growth Using Matched CPS Files,” with Mark Regets, Demography, May 1997, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 239-249 “The Decline in Immigrant Entry Earnings: Less Transferable Skills or Lower Ability?” with Mark Regets, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 37, Special Issue on Immigration, 1997, pp. 189-208 “Family Unification, Siblings, and Skills” with Mark Regets, in H. Duleep and P. V. Wunnava (editors), Immigrants and Immigration Policy: Individual Skills, Family Ties, and Group Identities, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996, pp. 219-244 “Individual Skills, Family Ties, and Group Identities: Introduction and Summary,” with Phanindra Wunnava, in H. Duleep and P. V. Wunnava (editors), Immigrants and Immigration Policy: Individual Skills, Family Ties, and Group Identities, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996, pp. 1-36 “Social Security and Immigrant Earnings,” with Mark Regets, Social Security Bulletin, vol. 59, no. 2, Summer 1996, pp. 20-30 “Admission Criteria and Immigrant Earnings Profiles,” with Mark Regets, International Migration Review, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer 1996, pp. 571-590. Reprinted in The Economics of Migration, Editors Klaus Zimmerman and Thomas Bauer, in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Series Editor, Mark Blaug, 2002 “Book Review of Issues in the Economics of Immigration by George Borjas,” Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 39, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 914-16 “Earnings Convergence: Does it Matter Where Immigrants Come From or Why?” with Mark Regets, Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 29, April 1996, pp. S130-S134 “Book Review of Immigration and the Work Force: Economic Consequences for the United States and Source Areas by George Borjas and Richard Freeman,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 47, No. 3, April 1994 “Book Review of Mass Immigration and the National Interest, by Vernon Briggs,” International 3 Migration Review, vol. 28, Summer 1994 “Social Security and the Emigration of Immigrants,” Social Security Bulletin, vol. 57, no. 1, Spring 1994. (Reprinted in Migration: A Worldwide Challenge for Social Security, Geneva: International Social Security Association, 1994) “Some Evidence on the Effect of Admission Criteria on Immigrant Assimilation,” with Mark Regets, in Immigration, Language and Ethnic Issues: Canada and the United States, Barry Chiswick (ed.). Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1992, pp. 410-437 II. Earnings and Labor Force Participation of Women “Trends in Female Immigrant Assimilation Rates,” under revision for requested resubmission in Labour Economics. “The Family Investment Model: A Formalization and Review of Evidence from Across Immigrant Groups,” Gender Issues, vol. 16, no. 4, Fall, 1998, pp. 84-104; reprinted in Immigrant Women, ed. Rita Simon, Transaction Publishers, 2001. “Empirical Regularities Across Cultures: The Effect of Children on Women’s Work,” with Seth Sanders, Journal of Human Resources, Spring 1994, pp. 328-47 “The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women,” with Seth Sanders, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July, 1993, pp. 677-90. Reprinted in The Economics of Migration, Editors Klaus Zimmerman and Thomas Bauer, in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Series Editor, Mark Blaug, 2002 “Discussion: Sex Discrimination in Pension Compensation,” 42nd Industrial Relations Research Association Proceedings, 1990 III. Income Distribution and Minority Economic Status “Accounting for the Economic Progress of American-Born Asians: 1960-1980,” with Seth Sanders, under revision for requested resubmission in Industrial & Labor Relations Review. “The Civil Rights Act and the Earnings of Lower Income Hispanic Men in the 1960’s,” with Mark Regets, under revision for publication. “India’s Caste System and the Labor/Land Ratio,” under revision for publication. “Civil Rights in Metropolitan America,” with Joe Darden and George Galster, Journal of Urban Affairs, Fall 1992 “An Exploratory Analysis of Discrimination at the Top: American-Born Asian and White Men,” with Seth Sanders, Industrial Relations, Fall 1992 “The Measurement of Labor Market Discrimination When Minorities Respond to Discrimination,” with Nadja
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