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in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …
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Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the …
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employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved …
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-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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …
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We test for an effect of Arizona’s 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state population characterized as foreign-born, as non-citizen, and as non-citizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control method to select a group of states against which the population trends of...
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