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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? Labor market effects of immigrant legalization
Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph - 2010
experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s …
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013
is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …
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Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety
Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998
Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...
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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2001
This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...
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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries
Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that … immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives? sentiments towards immigrants. It … immigration countries. Second, a new analysis of individual data from the OECD countries studies sentiments concerning immigration …
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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …
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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
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