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Labor market assimilation of recent immigrants in Spain

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - 2006

This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the employment and occupational assimilation of recent immigrant waves to … Earnings Structure Survey, we find evidence of immigrant employment and occupational assimilation significantly varying by … gender, origin and educational attainment. For instance, EU15 immigrants do not display an employment or occupational gap …

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Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2023

other forms of employment and no impact on average pay at the firm. Yet, access to H-2B workers raises firms' annual …

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Settling for Academia? H-1B Visas and the Career Choices of International Students in the United States

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Furtado, Delia - 2016

foreign-born students to secure employment in the United States. However, since the year 2000, institutions of higher … education and related non-profit research institutes had been exempt from the cap. We explore how immigrant employment choices …

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Labor Market Impacts of States Issuing of Driving Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2018

undocumented immigrants to estimate its impact on these population's employment outcomes. Using 2013 through 2017 data from the …

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Did OPT Policy Changes Help Steer and Retain Foreign Talent into Stem?

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Furtado, Delia; Xu, Huanan - 2018

Academia and the public media have emphasized the link between STEM majors and innovation, as well as the need for STEM graduates in the U.S. economy. Given the proclivity of international students to hold STEM degrees, immigration policy may be used to attract and retain high-skilled STEM...

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Refugee Admissions and Public Safety: Are Refugee Settlement Areas More Prone to Crime?

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia; Pozo, Susan - 2018

According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of refugees worldwide rose to 21.3 million in 2015. Yet, resistance to the welcoming of refugees appears to have grown. The possibility that refugees may commit acts of terrorism or engage in criminal behavior has served as...

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Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2019

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...

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Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Wang, … - 2019

that this effect is driven by a change in spousal preference. Both police-based and employment-based enforcement contribute …

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Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? County-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Kaushal, Neeraj; Muchow, … - 2020

Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...

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Immigration Policy and Hispanics' Willingness to Run for Office

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bucheli, Jose R. - 2020

For the first time in U.S. history, approximately 10 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives is Hispanic. The greater engagement of Hispanics in national politics has occurred after unprecedented growth in interior immigration enforcement disproportionately impacting Latinos. Using...

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