Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine two aspects of the self-employment adjustment of immigrant Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the tragic events of 9/11 on the self-employment entry/exit decisions of native-born Hispanics....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the tragic events of 9/11 on the self‐employment entry/exit decisions of native‐born Hispanics. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the difference‐in‐differences approach with native Whites as the control group....

This work presents new evidence on the relationship between husbands’ health insurance and wives’ labor supply. Several studies using cross-sectional data have suggested that spousal coverage reduces wives’ labor supply; however, these estimates potentially suffer from bias due to...

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