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Victor Nee

Researcher at Cornell University

Publications -  97
Citations -  14540

Victor Nee is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Human capital. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 95 publications receiving 13642 citations. Previous affiliations of Victor Nee include The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration

TL;DR: Alba and Nee as mentioned in this paper show that immigrants, historically and in the contemporary world, have profoundly changed American society and culture in the process of becoming Americans, and they predict that it will blur the boundaries among the major, racially defined populations as non-whites and Hispanics are increasingly incorporated into the mainstream.
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Rethinking assimilation theory for a new era of immigration.

TL;DR: It is argued that assimilation theory has not lost its utility for the study of contemporary immigration to the United States and some of the evidence about the socioeconomic and residential assimilation of recent immigrant groups is sifted through.
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Organizational Dynamics of Market Transition: Hybrid Forms, Property Rights, and Mixed Economy in China

TL;DR: Nee et al. as discussed by the authors developed a new-institutionalist analysis of the organizational dynamics that propel market transition in reforming state socialism and highlighted the importance of hybrid forms in the current market transitions in state socialism through an examination of the emergence of marketized firms and cadre-entrepreneurs in China.
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Immigrant Self-Employment: The Family as Social Capital and the Value of Human Capital

TL;DR: The authors examine how self-employment among Asian and Hispanic immigrants is affected by family composition and human capital/class resources, and show that the importance of human capital and class resources in accounting for immigrant self employment is emphasized.
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A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism

TL;DR: In this article, the transition from redistributive to market coordination shifts sources of power and privilege to favor direct producers relative to redistributors, which improves incentives for direct producers, stimulates the growth of private markets, and provides to entrepreneurs.