An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …

. However, the impact of immigration on natives in self-employment has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … of plausible parameter values, the model predicts small negative effects of immigration on native self-employment rates … and earnings. Using 1980 and 1990 Census microdata, we then examine the relationship between changes in immigration and …

. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their … immigration primarily affected the whites' marriage market which is why the changes in marital behavior are much more pronounced …

arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration …