in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …

We analyze the impact of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled Arizona … opportunities as a way to deter further illegal immigration and as such is likely to increase poverty among an already marginalized … population. Specifically, we assess whether the legislation reduced the formal employment opportunities of the targeted …

is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …

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

sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Variables for the proportion of immigrants in … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and …

employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved …

-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two groups decreased in the 1980’s. Given the high self-employment rates of this …-skilled natives are more likely to be self-employed than high-skilled immigrants. Models of the self-employment decision, controlling …, national origin and ethnicity, are estimated. Evidence of positive enclave effects on self-employment probabilities is found …

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

employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the exception of high-skilled unauthorized immigrants, the data fail to reveal … evidence of improved employment outcomes attributable to legal status. In light of evidence that unauthorized immigrants … experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s …