Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest … self-employment among other disadvantaged minority groups such as blacks and even a significant decline among whites … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …

devaluations of financial assets on value-added and employment in the financial industry. In the second part of the paper the …

Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we assess the role of employment-based health insurance … to account for the self-selection and, thus, endogeneity of having an employment-based health insurance offer. We find … that, once the endogeneity of having an employment-based health insurance offer is accounted for, the motherhood wage gap …

, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …. For women, employment also fell and transitions out of the workforce increased among the newly legalized population …. Increasing returns to skill, as captured by English proficiency, only played an important role in explaining the employment of …