Search Results - subject:"immigration reform"

Keeping the promise: immigration proposals from the heartland: a report from the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations

Whitney, Christopher - In: Profitwise (2004) Dec, pp. 26-28

shortcomings in the immigration system have made immigration reform a key policy issue. The demographic and cultural transformation …

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Effects of Legal Status and Health Service Availability on Mortality

Baker, Scott - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2010

Using a straight-forward Differences-in-Differences approach, effects of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act …

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Do amnesty programs encourage illegal immigration? Evidence from the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2001

illegal immigration. The authors focus on the effects of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which granted amnesty to …

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Immigration Reform and the Earnings of Latino Workers: Do Employer Sanctions Cause Discrimination?

BANSAK, CYNTHIA A; Raphael, Steven - Department of Economics, University of California-San … - 1998

This paper investigates whether employer sanctions for hiring undocumented workers introduced by the 1986 Immigration … Reform and Control Act (IRCA) adversely affected the hourly earnings of Latino workers in the southwestern U.S. We exploit …

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Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Hanson, Gordon H.; Spilimbergo, Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

This paper examines the determinants of illegal immigration in the United States from Mexico from 1976 to 1995. The main challenge in the empirical work is that the observations are not the number of individuals that attempt to enter the United States illegally, but rather the number of...

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