This article reviews the existing literature on the economic and other benefits of attending community college. First, the article reports on the earnings gains across all students and reviews the evidence for subgroups by gender, minority status, and credits accumulated. The article then reviews the methodological challenges associated with…

Discusses changes that might take place as a result of regularizing the status of undocumented workers without changing the total size of the alien workforce. Suggests that the influence of legal status on market wage rates and minimum wage enforcement is weak and that the presence of undocumented (versus resident) aliens can weaken union…