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Self-selection among undocumented immigrants from Mexico

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2001

This paper examines the effect of changes in migration determinants on the skill level of undocumented immigrants from … Mexican economic conditions are associated with a decline in the average educational levels of undocumented immigrants …. Stricter border enforcement is associated with higher average skill levels. Access to a network of previous immigrants appears …

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Immigrant selectivity: evidence from occupational distributions

Zavodny, Madeline - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2000

Whether immigrants are positively or negatively self-selected is much disputed. Whereas most previous studies have … addressed this question by comparing the wages of immigrants to those of U.S. natives, this analysis uses occupation to examine … the skill level of immigrants. Data on the occupational distribution of individuals granted legal permanent residence in …

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Determinants of recent immigrants' locational choices

Zavodny, Madeline - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 1998

dramatically in recent years. Recent immigrants are concentrated in several states, particularly California. This paper examines …

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Immigration, remittances, and business cycles

Mandelman, Federico S.; Zlate, Andrei - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2010

We use data on border enforcement and macroeconomic indicators from the United States and Mexico to estimate a two-country business cycle model of labor migration and remittances. The model matches the cyclical dynamics of labor migration to the United States and documents how remittances to...

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Does immigration affect wages? A look at occupation-level evidence

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2003

Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about whether higher levels of immigration reduce the wages of natives. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population Survey and the Immigration and Naturalization Service and focuses on differential effects by skill...

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The labor market experience and impact of undocumented workers

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2008

Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share of undocumented workers in those industries further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers...

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Race, wages, and assimilation among Cuban immigrants

Zavodny, Madeline - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2003

determinants of earnings among male Cuban immigrants in the United States by race. Nonwhite Cuban immigrants earn about 15 percent … immigrants also have lower returns to education than whites. A comparison to white, non-Hispanic U.S. natives indicates that …

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