document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more likely to be … loss arises because immigrants were less likely to work in jobs that could be performed remotely and suffered disparate … legal immigrants …

This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state … 14 percent of native households. The types of benefits received by earlier immigrants influence the types of benefits … received by newly arrived immigrants. Hence there might be ethnic networks which transmit information about the availability of …

consumer discrimination and incomplete information about the price of the good and the race of the seller. Equilibrium income …

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960 …-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend … policy toward high-skill workers matched with jobs, an increase in the earnings of immigrants from Mexico, and a decline in …

immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly, the share of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce declined … Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce was at the 1920 level. The paper examines the trends in the relative skills and … economic performance of Mexican immigrants, and contrasts this evolution with that experienced by other immigrants arriving in …

immigrants in the United States. Our theoretical framework, based on the assumption that family migration decisions maximize …

experienced by the immigrant household across generations. This paper documents the evidence on social mobility in the immigrant … correlation between the immigrants and their grandchildren. In rough terms, about half of the differences in relative economic …

targeted immigrants. The immigrants responded by increasing their labor supply, thereby raising the probability of being …