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 …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants …

the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self … the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … entrepreneurs to immigrants in wage/salary employment as well as native born business owners. We find that the returns to low …

-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Variables for the proportion of immigrants in … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel …. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize social … assistance less than refugee immigrants. Differences in welfare participation and number of months on welfare between immigrants …

-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high …-skilled natives are more likely to be self-employed than high-skilled immigrants. Models of the self-employment decision, controlling …. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants …

immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives? sentiments towards immigrants. It …. Natives in countries with mostly economic migrants are relatively more concerned about loosing jobs to immigrants. However …, the results also suggest that natives may view immigration more favorably if immigrants are selected according to the …