countries. The empirical analysis shows that differences in the U.S. earnings of immigrants with the same measured skills, but …

This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state … 14 percent of native households. The types of benefits received by earlier immigrants influence the types of benefits … received by newly arrived immigrants. Hence there might be ethnic networks which transmit information about the availability of …

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 rates of immigrants compare to those of native-born men? Second, is there … an "assimilation" effect on the self-employment propensity of immigrants? Finally, are the more recent waves of …

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960 …-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend … policy toward high-skill workers matched with jobs, an increase in the earnings of immigrants from Mexico, and a decline in …