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Asian-White Disparities in Short Sleep Duration (2014)

BMC Public Health (2014)

Although short sleep is associated with an increased risk of morbidity as well as mortality and has been shown to vary by industry of employment and occupation, little is known about the relationship between work and sleep among Asian Americans.

Social Capital Investment and Immigrant Economic Trajectories (2012)

International Migration (2012)

Although the scholarship on social capital and immigrant economic incorporation has sufficiently documented how immigrants mobilize social capital in their search for employment which often leads to the formation of immigrant niches, how social capital is processed after immigrants acquire employment and its significance for the preservation of immigrant employment niches is less well explored.

The Asian-American Labor Force in Recovery (2011)

U.S. Department of Labor (2011)

Asian-Americans and Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are a growing share of the United States labor market. They are also a diverse population who identify their ethnicity as Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and several other ethnicities.

Asians in the U.S. Labor Force: Profile of a Diverse Population (2011)

U.S. Department of Labor (2011)

The labor force characteristics of the Nation’s 11.2 million Asians vary considerably when the data are disaggregated by Asian group; this report examines similarities and differences in labor force participation, employment, unemployment, and more for the Asian groups, particularly during the 2008–2010 period.