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officers assigned to prevent unauthorized migrants from entering a state decreases that state's share of Mexican immigrants by …
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education and migration. The model is estimated using data on Mexicans in the US from the CPS and on Mexicans residents in … Mexico from the Mexican census. The findings are that there is a significant loss of human capital faced by immigrants that …
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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 …
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destinations, but remained mostly statistically insignificant at the newer destinations. Mexicans at the traditional destinations …
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empirically using data on recent Mexican migrants to the US, and exploit the geographic diffusion of Mexicans since the 1980s as …Diaspora networks provide information to future migrants and influence both their decision to migrate and their success … future migrants.In a decision model with imperfect signalling we show that migrants with access to a better network are more …
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European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are not accounted for). Consistently...
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This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
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Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly...
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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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the main gateway of the Venezuelan refugees and migrants entering Brazil, and focusing on the formal sector employment of …
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