effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, and household composition. The study reveals that the … intervention unintentionally decreased maternal employment and increased subsequent births. These results contradict those of … previous studies from the United States, where home visiting programs successfully increased employment and decreased fertility …

other hand, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. … and employment. The transition of immigrants into a new labor market is a gradual process: the dynamics of this process … for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants? arrival, and …

, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates - and that this …Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …

We analyze the impact of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled Arizona … opportunities as a way to deter further illegal immigration and as such is likely to increase poverty among an already marginalized … population. Specifically, we assess whether the legislation reduced the formal employment opportunities of the targeted …