Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (Encuesta de Poblacioń Activa) from 1999 through 2007, we explore the role of employment opportunities in explaining the growing immigrant flows of recent years. Subsequently, we investigate whether immigrant inflows have helped reduce regional...

The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens beginning in July 1998. In contrast to this federal law, several states have passed legislation explicitly allowing...