Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more … liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration …

opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …

- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …

The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since …. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their …

We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in … the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two …

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non …-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this … interaction multiple equilibria may arise, which are driven by the natives' expectations on the welfare effects of immigration. In …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required …