John Tyler and Magnus Lofstrom take a close look at the problems posed when students do
not complete high school. The authors begin by discussing the ongoing, sometimes heated, …

As in the US and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores
the possibility that immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants …

We test for an effect of Arizona's 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion
of the state's population characterized as noncitizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic
growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies, and many developed …

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 US Censuses to study labor market assimilation
of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage…

Why are some individuals more likely to become owners of small businesses than others?
We classify industries using measures of entry barriers and proceed to investigate how …

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in
Sweden using a large panel data set for the years 1990 to 1996. We find that immigrants use …

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of social assistance, unemployment, and
employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial …

Immigration can heavily influence the way in which a country’s labor force evolves over time.
Recent American experience bears this out. The proportion of immigrants in the adult …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison
and jail incarceration rates as well as community correctional populations have increased …