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Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment...
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previous Latin American immigrants falls when controlling for out-migration. This highlights the importance of controlling for … out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration …
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immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to … affecting their labor supply and wages in the United States. We find, as expected, that women who migrate from countries with …
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predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …
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relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …
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Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publicly-subsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...
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In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...
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Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … source countries were found to have very similar unadjusted fertility to native-born women. The small immigrant …
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, mostly immediate family. There is little evidence that the legalization increased subsequent unauthorized migration; in fact … magnitude of the legalization shock, we find that each IRCA admit accounts for the subsequent admission of 1 to 2 family members …, fewer temporary visa overstays have somewhat offset the additional family admissions. The marginal family-sponsored admit …
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We evaluate the economic consequences of immigration in a two-country, two-skill, overlapping-generations framework, where immigration, population, human and physical capital formation, and economic growth are endogenous variables. We go beyond extant literature by integrating physical capital...
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