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The effect of minimum wages on immigrants' employment and earnings

Orrenius, Pia M. (contributor); … - 2008

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...

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Welfare time limits in the United States : experiences with a new welfare-to-work approach

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2004

. Income effects change from positive to neutral in subsequent periods. …

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The potential of a couples approach to employment assistance : results of a nonexperimental evaluation

Gordon, Rachel A.; Heinrich, Carolyn J. - In: Review of Economics of the Household 7 (2009) 2, pp. 133-158

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Immigration amnesty and immigrant's earnings

Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - In: Immigration : trends, consequences and prospects for …, (pp. 273-309). 2008

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Immigration amnesty and immigrant's earnings

Gang, Ira N. (contributor); Yun, Myeong-Su (contributor) - 2006

We review the role immigration amnesties have played in US immigration policy, placing them in the context of similar programs embarked upon by other nations. The theory of amnesties suggests rent-seeking, bargaining, and costs as reasons for a country offering an amnesty, often in conjunction...

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The civil rights act and the earnings of lower income Hispanic men in the 1960's

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2012

contrast how lower income Hispanic and African-American men fared during the civil rights era relative to lower-income non … significant acceleration following the Civil Rights Act in the relative earnings of low-income Hispanic men. -- anti …-discrimination legislation ; minority economic progress ; Mexican Americans ; Hispanic ; low income ; Civil Rights Act ; longitudinal …