Similar Search Results

How Americans viewed their lives in 2005

Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 49 (2006) 3, pp. 48-67

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328235

How Americans view their lives

Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 50 (2007) 3, pp. 5-25

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003489993

Public opinion, the deep recession, and the 2010 elections

Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 53 (2010) 5, pp. 14-33

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729453

Cohort-level sex ratio effects on women's labor force participation

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana (contributor); … - 2007

It follows from a number of theoretical models of marriage that the scarcer women are relative to men, i.e. the higher the sex ratio, the less married women are likely to participate in the labor force. Such sex ratio effects may be stronger among less educated women. These predictions are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578843

Low-skilled immigration and parenting investments of college-educated mothers in the United States : evidence from time-use data

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2013

This paper uses several decades of US time-diary surveys to assess the impact of low-skilled immigration, through lower prices for commercial child care, on parental time investments. Using an instrumental variables approach that accounts for the endogenous location of immigrants, we find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771605

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants and its impact on college enrollment, tuition costs, student financial aid, and indebtedness

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Sparber, Chad - 2012

The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal law, several states have passed legislation explicitly allowing undocumented immigrants to pay...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621609

Settling for academia? : H-1B visas and the career choices of international students in the United States

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Furtado, Delia - 2016

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528121

Immigration enforcement and childhood poverty in the United States

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2016

Over the past two decades immigration enforcement has grown exponentially in the United States. We exploit the geographical and temporal variation in a novel index of the intensity of immigration enforcement between 2005 and 2011 to show how the average yearly increase in interior immigration...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500545

The impact of amnesty on labor market outcomes : a panel study using the legalized population survey

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2011

, 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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009234514

How do tougher immigration measures impact unauthorized immigrants?

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Puttitanun, Thitima; … - 2013

The recent impetus of tougher immigration-related measures passed at the state-level raises concerns about the impact of such measures on the migration experience, trajectory and future plans of unauthorized immigrants. In a recent and unique survey of Mexican unauthorized immigrants interviewed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683006