Affiliation:
1. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes is a Professor at the University of California, Merced. Magnus Lofstrom is Policy Director and Senior Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Chunbei Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma
Abstract
The recent dramatic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants in the United States in the past two decades is a puzzling trend, in stark contrast to the stagnant growth or even decline among other demographic groups. The authors propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a characteristic of the US immigration policy during that time span, contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration enforcement measures from 2005 to 2017, the authors show that tougher enforcement has been responsible for approximately 15% of the rise in Mexican self-employment in the United States.
Subject
Management of Technology and Innovation,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Strategy and Management
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