Do Pakistani Immigrant Women Experience a Cumulative Disadvantage within the US Labor Market?

dc.contributor.advisor	Witte, James
dc.contributor.author	Khan, Zahra Sohail
dc.creator	Khan, Zahra Sohail
dc.date	2015-05-14
dc.date.accessioned	2015-10-23T15:33:04Z
dc.date.available	2015-10-23T15:33:04Z
dc.date.issued	2015-10-23
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1920/9968
dc.description.abstract	This thesis empirically analyzes the economic performance of Pakistani women immigrants in the US. I estimate a comparative model of earnings for a sample of Indian and Pakistani women immigrants. Each group represents diverse patterns within the US labor market. Secondary data from the American Community Survey (2008-2012) was analyzed by running OLS regressions. The findings support the cumulative disadvantage hypothesis as the analyzed immigrant groups appear to experience a wage differential across country of origin and social position categories. The results can be utilized to inform future research on the economic performance of Pakistani women immigrants in the US.
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.rights	Copyright 2015 Zahra Sohail Khan	en_US
dc.subject	immigrants	en_US
dc.subject	wage inequality	en_US
dc.subject	intersectionality	en_US
dc.subject	Pakistan	en_US
dc.subject	India	en_US
dc.subject	cumulative disadvantage	en_US
dc.title	Do Pakistani Immigrant Women Experience a Cumulative Disadvantage within the US Labor Market?	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts in Sociology	en_US
thesis.degree.level	Master's	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Sociology	en
thesis.degree.grantor	George Mason University	en