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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? : labor market effects of immigrant legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph M. - 2010

Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...

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The effect of family separation and reunification on the educational success of immigrant children in the United States

Gindling, Thomas; Poggio, Sara Z. - 2010

For many immigrants, especially those from Central America and Mexico, it is common for a mother or father (or both) to migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the parent(s) have achieved some degree of stability in the United States, the children follow. Using...

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Why does intermarriage increase immigrant employment? ; the role of networks

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2010

Social networks are commonly understood to play a large role in the labor market success of immigrants. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the probability of immigrant employment. We start by...

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Why are immigrants' incarceration rates so low? : Evidence on selective immigration, deterrence, and deportation

Butcher, Kristin F. (contributor); … - 2006

Immigrants to the United States tend to have characteristics in common with native-born populations that are disproportionately incarcerated. The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s that particularly increased punishment of criminal aliens....

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Immigration amnesty and immigrant's earnings

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

. We study who are migrants; among migrants, who are legalized via IRCA, and who are legalized via sponsorship of family or … employer. Furthermore, to measure the impact of amnesty on welfare of migrants, we estimate earnings equations of various … migrants groups. -- Amnesty ; illegal migration ; border controls ; IRCA …

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The impact of Mexican immigrants on US wage structure

Toussaint-Comeau, Maude (contributor) - 2007

Previous study by Card and Lewis (2005) has found (puzzling) that inflows of Mexican immigrants into "new" metropolitan areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect relative wages for high school graduates. Whereas...

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The economic progress of American Jewry : from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on the occupational status of Jewish men and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses...

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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution : a review of the literature

Stichnoth, Holger; Van der Straeten, Karine - 2009

We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...

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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012

Effekt einer ansteigenden linguistischen Distanz auf den Spracherwerb von Immigranten in Spanien, den USA und Deutschland …

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Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis

Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010

In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...

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