Given immigration's recent resurgence as an important demographic fact in the U.S. economy, policy modelers are just beginning to grapple with how best to integrate immigrants into policy models. Building on the research reviewed in the preceding article, quot;Research on Immigrant...

Using 1980 Census data, the authors analyze the labor force participation of married immigrant Asian women by country of origin, compared with that of married immigrant women from Europe and Canada. The results suggest the existence of a family investment strategy: evidence from both across...

This paper presents and tests a model that may partially explain why the demand for labor adapts to the availability of labor. In particular, I postulate that the cost of hiring declines with increases in the amount of labor available. The cost of hiring would decrease with a growth in available...