Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an … immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the …

repatriates provides us a strong source of exogenous variation in the 1989 immigrant shock across locations. Using a potential …

immigrant employment rates. We show that even when controlling for a variety of human capital and assimilation measures …, marriage to a native increases the probability that an immigrant is employed. An instrumental variables approach which exploits …

connection between immigrant inflows and the relative number of less-skilled workers in the local population. The labor market … impacts of immigrant arrivals can be offset by outflows of natives and earlier generations of immigrants. Empirically, however … more- and less-skilled natives, coupled with a positive effect on average native wages. Beyond the labor market, immigrant …

inflows can therefore be seen as a natural experiment of immigration, avoiding the typical endogeneity problem of immigrant …