. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … characteristic of the U.S. immigration policy during that time span, might have contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …

-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice. …

-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice. …

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using …-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice. …

on the migrant?s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …

Recent increases in US immigration enforcement at the local and state level may be impacting remittance flows to … developing countries by curtailing undocumented immigration, restricting the cyclicality of migration flows and limiting … employment opportunities for the undocumented. We examine how the remitting patterns of Mexican migrants in the United States are …

on the migrant?s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the … ; immigration ; location choice …

language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …