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

In this paper we use three euro exchange rates to test for the presence of volatility spillovers, common volatility components and time-varying correlations using the multivariate-GARCH model and the common volatility methodology approach proposed by Engle and Kozicki (1993). Our results suggest...

The study of international integration of equity markets has received a great deal of interest. This paper investigates whether returns of 41 closed-end country funds share a common volatility process with three comparable return-series: the underlying net asset value (NAV), the U.S., and the...

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...

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 article studies the response of Mexico's monetary policy to inflows of workers' remittances. Previous studies have shown that remittances can have an impact on several macroeconomic variables of the receiving country (e.g. exchange rate, inflation and output, among others). Mexico has the...

In this article we re-examine the relationship between remittances and economic growth placing special attention to the non-linearity of this relationship. Previous studies have ignored the non-linearity of the relationship between remittances and economic growth or have used a quadratic term to...