ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that gender and current residency status have a combined effect on immigrants' outcomes and experiences in the US workforce. It presents a comparative analysis of data from the 2013 National Survey of College Graduates to examine differences at the intersection of gender and residency status among the foreign-born college-educated individuals who obtained their highest degree in the United States. Foreign-born international graduates compete with other high-skilled professionals, directly recruited by employers or admitted by the immigrant-receiving country through merit-based immigration policies. Immigration policies create various barriers to the free circulation of human capital. In terms of human capital characteristics, both level of education and field of study variables are significantly associated with gender-residency status. Human capital theory is the most influential framework to examine labor market outcomes in modern knowledge economies, making the framework relevant to the study of college-educated workers.
