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Immigration policy and the rise of self-employment among Mexican immigrants

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2020

. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … characteristic of the U.S. immigration policy during that time span, might have contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …

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Do E-Verify mandates improve labor market outcomes of low-skilled native and legal immigrant workers?

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2015

We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify mandates and specifically, we test for effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on...

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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? : labor market effects of immigrant legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph M. - 2010

experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s … ; immigration ; legalization ; amnesty …

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Immigration policy, assimilation of immigrants and natives' sentiments towards immigrants : evidence from 12 OECD-countries

Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000

As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that … immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives' sentiments towards immigrants. It … immigration countries. Second, a new analysis of individual data from the OECD countries studies sentiments concerning immigration …

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Immigrant labor and workplace safety

Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...

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Occupational mobility of ethnic migrants

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical … analysis suggests significant differences in the probability of downward occupational mobility by gender, immigration status …, and schooling levels. In general, migrants with higher skill levels face sharper deteriorations in their relative labor …

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The dynamics of immigrant welfare and labor market behavior

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2001

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...

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