Published in Journal of population economics
This paper explores the labor market and schooling effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative, which provides work authorization to eligible immigrants along with a temporary reprieve from deportation. The analysis relies on a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the discontinuity in program rules to compare...
Published in Journal of population economics
The empirical literature on the impact of HIV on the quality (Q) and quantity (N) of children provides limited and somewhat mixed evidence. This study introduces individual HIV risk perceptions, as a predictor of mortality, into a Q-N investment model. In this model, higher maternal mortality predicts lower N while higher child mortality predicts l...
Published in Journal of population economics
This study uses data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study on Early Child Care to examine the effects of maternal employment on maternal mental and overall health, self-reported parenting stress, and parenting quality. These outcomes are measured when children are 6 months old. Among mothers of 6-month-old infants,...
Published in Journal of population economics
We examine the effects of population aging due to declining fertility and rising elderly life expectancy on consumption possibilities in the presence of intergenerational transfers. Our analysis is based on a highly tractable continuous-time overlapping generations model in which the population is divided into three groups (youth dependents, worker...
Published in Journal of population economics
"This paper studies the differences in earnings between Mexican legal and illegal immigrants in the United States. The analysis includes a cross-sectional examination of the wage differences between legal and undocumented workers as well as a longitudinal analysis examining the impact of legalization on the earnings of previously-undocumented worke...
Published in Journal of population economics
This paper examines how immigrants working illegally in the shadow economy affect the legal employment of native and foreign workers in the official economy of Italy. The data set used was provided by the Central Statistical Office and includes information regarding the units of labor employed both in official production and in underground producti...
Published in Journal of population economics
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of illegal immigrants on the small type economy of Greece by using the multisectoral computable general equilibrium model. The theoretical analysis utilizes a model showing that there is no equivocal case for illegal immigration leading to the decline in the real wages of unskil...
Published in Journal of population economics
This study examined whether or not restrictive controls on migration were effective decennially, over the period 1939-89, in the former Soviet Union. Data were obtained from censuses for a sample of 308 cities with a population of 50,000 or more in 1959. 77 cities had some type of administrative restrictions, of which 44 had total and 27 had expans...
Published in Journal of population economics
This paper studies the prospects of implementation of guest-worker programs by governments that are based on an intended temporary presence of foreign workers. The purpose of guest- worker programs is to alleviate sector-specified labor shortages. The intention of a temporary stay is reflected in families left behind, and in the employers that ofte...
Published in Journal of population economics
This study is a first attempt at placing the analysis of fertility in a temporal dynamic framework in the case of a developing Asian economy like Thailand by binding the relationship between fertility and its determinants within a cointegrated system. In this respect, the focus of this paper is to shed light on whether a significant socioeconomic s...
