. 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 …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks …. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation … important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels …

-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …

verify this result for recent immigrants to Canada for whom a strong network is captured by the presence of a 'close tie …

We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to … weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with skilled immigration policy … immigrants. Given that there is increasingly little to distinguish the skilled immigration policies of these countries, we …

Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a … market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest … cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new immigration programs in the 2000s. The …

produce seasonality effects that differentially affect the composition of recent and earlier migrants, thereby changing … assimilation profiles. -- Immigration ; March CPS ; CPS outgoing rotations ; hours of work …

reduces migration rates in half, while subsidizing return migration in $300 reduces migration rates of older migrants but … increases migration rates of younger migrants. -- International migration ; job search ; job turnover ; savings ; structural …

convergence. We show that Mexicans and Central Americans working in the construction sector and in urban areas did better in terms …