Similar Search Results

Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy : Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by shrinking the workforce. We study one such barrier, a policy change that excluded almost half a million Mexican bracero seasonal agricultural workers from the United States....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963750

Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures : How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2010

affect total expenditures in households headed by low-educated single mothers. However, patterns of expenditure did change … significant changes in expenditures on childcare or learning and enrichment activities. This pattern of results suggests that … welfare reform has shifted family expenditures towards items that facilitate work outside the home, but, at least so far, has …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760606

International Student Mobility : Growth and Dispersion

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2019

mobility – the human capital model and the migration model – across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest … that while the predictions of the migration model are generally valid in explaining student emigration to non …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868744

The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants During the 1990s : Explanations and Impacts

Card, David - 2012

Mexican immigrants were historically clustered in a few cities, mainly in California and Texas. During the past 15 years, however, arrivals from Mexico established sizeable immigrant communities in many "new" cities. We explore the causes and consequences of the widening geographic diffusion of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103259

Immigration and Production Technology

Lewis, Ethan G. - 2014

Research on the labor market impact of immigration typically relies on a single-good model of production with separable capital. This article discusses theory and evidence that suggest that this standard model is too simple to capture the labor market impact of immigration. A reasonable level of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065644

Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan G. - 2014

In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048050

Health and Mental Health Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement

Wang, Julia Shu-Huah - 2018

We study the effect of two local immigration enforcement policies – Section 287(g) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Secure Communities Program (SC) – that have escalated fear and risk of deportation among the undocumented on the health and mental...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922215

Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2014

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752018

Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2001

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124352

Opening the Door : Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States

Cascio, Elizabeth; Lewis, Ethan G. - 2022

migration. Estimates are highly robust and similar in magnitude when we use variation across countries of origin in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092499