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Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform

Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … violent crime and evidence of modest effects on property crime, auto theft in particular. These effects are considerably … considerably lower. We corroborate theses cross-county results with a synthetic-cohort analysis of state crime rates in California …

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Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions

Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States

Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

-skilled immigration has driven down wages in the US child-care sector. More affordable child-care has, in turn, increased the fertility of …

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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...

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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries

Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives’ sentiments towards immigrants. It … immigration countries. Second, a new analysis of individual data from the OECD countries studies sentiments concerning immigration … are relatively more concerned with immigrations impact on social issues such as crime than on the employment effects …

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Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects

Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Immigrants who marry outside of their ethnicity tend to have better economic outcomes than those who marry within ethnicity. It is difficult, however, to interpret this relationship because individuals with stronger preferences for ethnic endogamy are likely to differ in unobserved ways from...

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H-1Bs: How Do They Stack Up to US Born Workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hayes, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the …

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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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Interethnic Marriage: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through which education affects marriage choice. First,...

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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's …

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