Little is known about the labor market impacts of workers’ remittances, despite their magnitude
in countries with considerable outmigration. Reports that families receiving international …

Using Mexico’s 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH),
we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately …

One of the stylized facts from the past 30 years has been the declining rate of first births before
age 30 for all women and the increase rate of first births after age 30 among women with …

Tougher immigration enforcement was responsible for 1.8 million deportations between
2009 and 2013 alone—many of them were fathers of American children. We exploit the …

We test the impact of workers' remittances on the real exchange rate using a panel of 13 Latin
American and Caribbean countries. The analysis reveals that workers' remittances have …

Over the past two decades immigration enforcement has grown exponentially in the United
States. Using data from the 2005 through 2011 American Community Survey, we exploit the …

• Exiting Employment. Higher returns to skill and eligibility for unemployment insurance
following legalization may raise the reservation wage of skilled workers, who may choose to …

We examine the role of school closures in contributing to the negative labor market impacts
of the COVID-19 pandemic. We collect detailed daily information on school closures at the …

This article provides a preliminary analysis of the employment and occupational assimilation
of recent immigrant waves to the Spanish labour market as their residencies lengthen. …

We argue that remittances are, in part, transferred to the home country to purchase family-provided
insurance and self-insurance. We use data on Mexican immigrants with work …