successful in reducing welfare use in general and the immigrant-native welfare gap in particular. -- welfare ; immigration …

. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … characteristic of the U.S. immigration policy during that time span, might have contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …

experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s …