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Remittances to Latin America from migrants in the United States : assessing the impact of amnesty programs

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Mazzolari, Francesca - 2009

The magnitude of remittance flows to Latin America exceeds the combined inflows of foreign direct investment and official development assistance to the region. Since the United States is the destination country of the vast majority of migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American...

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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...

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Heterogeneous returns to human capital and dynamic self-selection

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2001

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience. Homogeneity of the returns to human capital is strongly rejected in favor of a discrete...

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Subjective discount rates, intergenerational transfers and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999

Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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