This issue of the Hispanic Economic Outlook contains three articles:- Hispanic Employment Conditions by Marie Mora- Recession, return migration and remittances by Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva- Hispanic self employment versus paid emplyment in the 2000s by Alberto Davila

The effects of the current global economic crisis are widespread. The economic downturn has affected large sectors of the population in developed and developing countries and international immigrants have not been the exception. This paper documents the recent slowdown in workers' remittances,...

This issue of the Hispanic Economic Outlooks contains the following articles: - Hispanic Employment Conditions - Recession, Return Migration, and Remittances- Hispanic Self Employment versus Paid Employment in the 2000sFormed in early 2009, the Hispanic Economic Outlook was designed to monitor...

This issue of the Hispanic Economic Outlook contains the following articles: Hispanic Employment Conditions; Hispanic Homeowners and Worries about Housing; The Current State of Workers' Remittances. Formed in early 2009, the Hispanic Economic Outlook was designed to monitor and report on a host...

This article documents the business cycle properties of workers' remittance flows to Mexico. We also discuss key differences between the cyclical properties of remittance inflows and the cyclical properties of foreign direct investment (FDI). We find evidence that remittances are countercyclical...

This article analyzes the relationship between remittances, exchange rates and money demand in Mexico. We find that shocks to remittances have a positive impact on domestic money demand. The results also suggest the existence of a bi-directional relationship between remittances and the exchange...

The existing literature on the health trajectories of UK immigrants has mainly focused on the relationship between ethnicity and health. There is little information on the role of immigration status and no previous information on the role of reason for immigration to the UK. This study fills...

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on waiting times for the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Linking administrative records from Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting...

This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work injury risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey (2003-2013), we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation of UK-born workers towards jobs...

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...