Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2020
. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration … enforcement measures from 2005 to 2017, we show that tougher enforcement has been responsible for 10 to 20 percent of the rise in …