impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations …. We find that the enactment of both universal and public-sector only mandates reduce employment of likely unauthorized … workers. Meanwhile, employment verification does not affect naturalized Hispanic workers but increases the employment …

foreign-born students to secure employment in the United States. However, since the year 2000, institutions of higher … education and related non-profit research institutes had been exempt from the cap. We explore how immigrant employment choices …

, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …. For women, employment also fell and transitions out of the workforce increased among the newly legalized population …. Increasing returns to skill, as captured by English proficiency, only played an important role in explaining the employment of …

Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest … self-employment among other disadvantaged minority groups such as blacks and even a significant decline among whites … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …

data on various employment and socio- demographic characteristics from the monthly Current Population Survey from January …