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Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration

Lozano, Fernando A.; Steinberger, Michael D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

in future work in the field. We divide the most common tools used in the empirical literature into four broad categories …, and (4) Recent Developments and Distributional Estimators. We use recent empirical work to highlight and explain each …

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The Labor Market Value to Legal Status

Lozano, Fernando A.; Sorensen, Todd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We present estimates of the effect of legal immigration status on earnings of undocumented workers. Our contribution to the literature centers on a two-step procedure that allows us to first estimate the legal status of an immigrant and then estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and...

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Mexican Immigrants, the Labor Market and the Current Population Survey: Seasonality Effects, Framing Effects, and Sensitivity of Results

Lozano, Fernando A.; Sorensen, Todd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

measure that is seemingly consistent across both surveys: usual weekly hours of work in the main job. Our results indicate … that the two surveys produce dramatically different estimates of the change in average hours of work as immigrants’ years …

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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Lozano, Fernando A.; Lopez, Mary J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border enforcement either deters potential illegal immigrants from coming to the U.S., or moves the point of...

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