This paper investigates the gender-selection decisions of immigrants in the United Kingdom, using data from the 1971 2006 General Household Survey.
Perhaps surprisingly, relatively little work has been conducted on the effects of exogenous changes in offered wages on the location decisions of immigrants within the U.S1.
In order to avoid potential problems of endogeneity related to the child-bearing decisions of immigrants, and variations over time in the composition of immigrant inflows, we focus on the retrospective component of the 2000 reform.
because this functional form allows me to examine how the effects of ppp and relative wages on the optimal migration duration and consumption decisions of immigrants vary by the curvature of the utility function (or by immigrants' willingness to substitute consumption intertemporally).
Using a model of joint consumption and migration duration decisions, I first examine the impact of ppp and relative wages on the optimal migration duration decision of immigrants.
Therefore, the self-employment decisions of recent immigrants are positively correlated.
Of particular interest have been the location decisions of recent immigrants to the United States and their responsiveness to state-level welfare benefits (Borjas 1999).
Indeed, the settlement decision of new immigrants are partly determined by the presence of earlier immigrants, mainly through network externalities (Gross and Schmitt 2003; Epstein and Gang 2010)—past immigrants may, for instance, provide new immigrants with information on labor and housing markets.
In this study, we found that proficiency in English has an insignificant negative effect on the self-employment decisions of recent male immigrants from China, while it positively influences the self-employment decisions of Indian immigrants.
The purposes of this study were to (a) obtain data about the child health care decision making and practices of immigrant English-speaking women from the Caribbean region and (b) describe their experiences with the U.S. health care system and providers of care.
