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Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2011

Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing … household income volatility using Mexican household level data over the 2000 through 2008 period. We correct for reverse … surrounding income volatility are also considered and evaluated. -- remittances ; income smoothing …

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Pandemic-era uncertainty

Meyer, Brent; Mihaylov, Emil; Barrero, Jose Maria; … - 2022

We examine several measures of uncertainty to make five points. First, equity market traders and executives at nonfinancial firms have shared similar assessments about one-year-ahead uncertainty since the pandemic struck. Both the one-year VIX and our survey-based measure of firm-level...

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Moonlighting behavior over the business cycle

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina (contributor); … - 2005

Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we examine the cyclicality by sex of moonlighting and moonlighting hours. We find that, once we account for the sample selection into employment, both men and women exhibit procyclical moonlighting probabilities. Likewise,...

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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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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

For the first time since the inception of the H-1B visa, yearly caps became binding in 2004, making it harder for most 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...

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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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It's where you work : increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the US

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - 2014

This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...

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