This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in … the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on … average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower levels of education, limited English skills, and less social capital …

Hispanic immigrants and natives compared with non-Hispanic whites and blacks. We focus on adults who have not finished high … Survey during the period 1994-2007 indicate that there is a significant disemployment effect of higher minimum wages on … Latino teenagers, although it is smaller for foreign- than native-born Latinos. Adult Latino immigrants' earnings are less …

Immigrants have figured prominently in U.S. economic growth for decades, but the recent recession hit them hard …. Immigrants' labor market outcomes began deteriorating even before the recession was officially underway, largely as a result of … the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor …

This paper examines the effect of changes in migration determinants on the skill level of undocumented immigrants from … Mexican economic conditions are associated with a decline in the average educational levels of undocumented immigrants …. Stricter border enforcement is associated with higher average skill levels. Access to a network of previous immigrants appears …

. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population Survey and the Immigration and Naturalization …

evidence on the subject, which reaches several conclusions. First, immigrants are overrepresented in occupations and industries … with higher injury and fatality rates. Second, immigrants have higher work-related injury and fatality rates in some … advanced economies, but not all. Finally, most, but not all, immigrants appear to earn risk premiums similar to natives for …

This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in … the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on … average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower levels of education, limited English skills, and less social capital …

This paper examines whether allowing certain undocumented immigrants to legalize their status leads to additional … million undocumented immigrants. We find that apprehensions of persons attempting to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border … declined immediately following passage of the law but returned to normal levels during the period when illegal immigrants could …