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Title: Investigating the Effects of the Model Minority Myth and the Glass Ceiling on the Earnings of Asian American Men

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: The investigation of labor market discrimination against native born Asian American men is an important case in contemporary racial and ethnic relations. While some scholars have recently argued that this demographic group has achieved approximate labor market parity with white men, our analysis provides detailed empirical evidence that is more directly relevant to prior theoretical discussions of the Model Minority Myth and the Glass Ceiling. Previous research focuses on racial differentials in conditional means, but the more theoretically relevant parameters refer to racial differentials at the tails of the earnings distributions. Using pooled data from the 2000 Census and the American Community Survey, we specify quantile regression models that estimate the net racial effects at both the lower and the higher ends of the distribution of earnings differentials. At the national level, estimates from quantile regressions provide considerable support for the Model Minority Myth and Glass Ceiling hypotheses but lead to the rejection of the alternative explanation about negative educational selectivity. Conclusions about the full labor market parity of Asian American men relative to white men may thus be premature when using national-level data.

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Authors: Sakamoto, Arthur; Kim, ChangHwan

Conference Name: Population Association of America

Publisher Location: San Francisco, CA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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