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Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

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Immigration Policy and the Rise of Self-Employment Among Mexican Immigrants

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2021

Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest immigrant population in the country. This is an interesting yet puzzling trend, in stark contrast to the stagnated growth of self-employment among other disadvantaged minority...

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September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment Among Mexican Immigrants

Wang, Chunbei - 2019

Since the September 11 attacks (9/11), the U.S. has seen a tightening of immigration policies. Previous studies find that stricter immigration enforcement has the unintended effect of pushing undocumented immigrants into self-employment. This paper builds on the literature to better understand...

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The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Ohlsson, Henrik - 2010

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …

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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...

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Employment Effects of State Legislation Against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers

Bohn, Sarah - 2012

We analyze the impact of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled Arizona workers, with a focus on the states' unauthorized population. The intent of LAWA was to limit unauthorized workers' economic opportunities as a way to deter further illegal...

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Do E-Verify Mandates Improve Labor Market Outcomes of Low-Skilled Native and Legal Immigrant Workers?

Bohn, Sarah - 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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From Aliens to Citizens : The Political Incorporation of Immigrants

Bevelander, Pieter - 2014

This is a draft chapter for the Handbook on Economics of International Migration (Eds. B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller) and deals with the political incorporation of immigrants in host societies. Political incorporation is discussed with regard to the regulation of legal status, rights,...

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Minorities, Social Capital and Voting

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2021

It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants and ethnic minorities is lower than among the native born. The goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, minority and majority citizens in Canada. We use the 2002 wave of the Equality Security Community...

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Did Employer Sanctions Lose Their Bite? Labor Market Effects of Immigrant Legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2010

Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...

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