. 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 …

officers assigned to prevent unauthorized migrants from entering a state decreases that state's share of Mexican immigrants by …

intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in … the implementation of interior immigration enforcement from 2005 to 2017, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the … Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for legal status without relying on abusive U ….S. citizen or legal permanent resident spouses, we find that intensified interior immigration enforcement has curbed the VAWA …

We examine the labor market consequences of an extensive campaign repatriating around 400,000 Mexicans in 1929-34. To … identify a causal effect, we instrument county level repatriations with the existence of a railway line to Mexico interacted …

We present estimates of the effect of legal immigration status on earnings of undocumented workers. Our contribution to … estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on immigrants' labor market outcomes using a triple … Mexican immigrants did, and find no systematic bias towards positive and significant results. -- immigration ; legal status …

migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on … 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected immigrants' remitting patterns. In models that control for … country of origin, we estimate substantial post-legalization drops in remittances sent home by Mexican-born migrants who …

; policy reform ; illegal migrants ; Mexico ; migration policy … significant effect on remittance flows from illegal migrants took place after the implementation of the IIRIRA. This is consistent … confirms previous research that conditions and policies in the host country affect migrants' remitting behaviour, and migrants …

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 …