Wang, Chunbei; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2019
Since the September 11 attacks (9/11), the U.S. has seen a tightening of immigration policies. Previous studies find … immigrants triggered by the tightened immigration enforcement after 9/11. Using a difference-in-differences approach, and the … find that both necessity and opportunity self-employment increased among Mexican immigrants after 9/11. However, the effect …