abstract: 'Previous research on understanding race-ethnic differentials in

  employment and economic contributions by married women has primarily

  focused on Blacks, Hispanics, or Whites. This study investigates

  variations in wives'' earning contributions as measured by wives earnings

  as a proportion of total annual household earnings among six Asian

  groups, Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, and

  Vietnamese relative to native born non-Hispanic White. I disaggregate

  the six Asian groups by their ethnicity and nativity status. Using

  pooled data from 2009-2011 American Community Survey, the findings show

  significance of human capital, hours of paid labor market engagement and

  nativity status. There is strong and negative association between

  husbands'' human capital and labor supply with wives'' earning

  contributions suggesting near universality of male-breadwinner status.

  Notwithstanding the commonalities, there is significant intergroup

  diversity. While foreign born and native born Filipina wives despite

  their spouses'' reasonably high human capital and work hours, contribute

  one of the highest shares, the same cannot be said for the Asian Indians

  and Japanese. For foreign born Asian Indian and to some extent Japanese

  women, their high human capital is not translated to high earning

  contribution after controlling for husband''s human capital. Further,

  nativity status impacts groups differentially. Native born Vietnamese

  wives contribute the greatest. Overall, the findings underscore the

  relevance of employing multiple conceptual frameworks in understanding

  earning contributions of foreign and native born Asian wives belonging

  to the six Asian groups, Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese,

  Korean, and Vietnamese. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Kulkarni, VS (Corresponding Author), Arkansas State Univ, Dept Criminol
  Sociol \& Geog, POB 2410, State Univ, AR 72467 USA.

  Arkansas State Univ, Dept Criminol Sociol \& Geog, State Univ, AR 72467 USA.'
author: Kulkarni, Veena S.
author-email: vkulkarni@astate.edu
author_list:
- family: Kulkarni
  given: Veena S.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.03.002
eissn: 1096-0317
files: []
issn: 0049-089X
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
keywords: Asian Americans; Comparative; Immigrant households; Wives' earnings
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-FORCE PARTICIPATION; DUAL-EARNER COUPLES; UNITED-STATES; WOMENS

  EMPLOYMENT; AMERICAN-WOMEN; ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES; GENDER INEQUALITY;

  INDIAN IMMIGRANTS; MARRIED-WOMEN; FAMILY'
language: English
month: JUL
number-of-cited-references: '95'
pages: 539-557
papis_id: 8faf15dbf3943526b7266daf9689629c
ref: Kulkarni2015herearnings
times-cited: '4'
title: 'Her earnings: Exploring variation in wives'' earning contributions across
  six major Asian groups and Whites'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000355766900036
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '22'
volume: '52'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2015'