Editorial No. 54

Discussion Paper No. 2003/54

The paper tests for external effects of local economic activity on consumption and income growth at the farm household level using panel data from four provinces of post-reform rural China. The tests allow for nonstationary fixed effects in the consumption growth process. Evidence is found of geographic externalities, stemming from spillover effects of the level and composition of local economi...

Satyagraha Vol. 54 No. 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 54

Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estim...

Satyagraha Vol. 54 No. 5

Editorial: Why No Borders?

This editorial article argues for No Borders as a practical political project . We first critically examine borders as ideological, generating and reinforcing inequality . We consider some responses to injustices produced by borders: the call for “human rights”; attempts to make immigration controls more “humanitarian”; and trade unions’ organizing and campaigning with undocumented workers . Re...