This dissertation examines employment, earnings, and income of the six major
foreign and native born Asian groups, namely, Asian Indians, Chinese, Filipinos,
Japanese, Koreans, and the Vietnamese for the year 2000. The dissertation makes three
contributions. First, it provides an updated analysis of employment and earning
attainments of Asian individuals disaggregated by countries of origin, gender, and
nativity status using the latest available and most suitable data. Second, it explores the
use of a non-parametric technique, namely reweighting, to assess the earning gaps
between Asians and whites. Third, it analyzes intergroup variations in household income,
inclination to pool resources, and factors associated with the likelihood of forming
nuclear living arrangements.