Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent … employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the exception of high-skilled unauthorized immigrants, the data fail to reveal … evidence of improved employment outcomes attributable to legal status. In light of evidence that unauthorized immigrants …

because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …

, particularly those of primary completers. -- Returns to schooling ; earnings profiles ; occupations ; macroeconomic shocks ; policy …Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic … earnings profiles over time. This paper contributes to the existing literature by employing a variety of methodologies in order …

Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods … equilibrium effects. Adjusted estimates of the positive net fiscal impact of average recent U.S. immigrants rise by a factor of 3 …

Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … immigrants. Allowing firms to have differential fixed cost in hiring immigrants we analyze the impact of an increase in local … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …