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Employment effects of state legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrant workers
Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2012
We analyze the impact of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled Arizona … salary employment rate for the vast majority of workers in Arizona. Only among the workers most likely to be unauthorized … ; unauthorized ; undocumented ; immigration ; Hispanic ; Arizona …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548162
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Do E-Verify mandates improve labor market outcomes of low-skilled native and legal immigrant workers?
Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2015
effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled native-born and legal immigrant … workers in Arizona. We use the synthetic control method developed by Abadie, Diamond and Hainmueller (2010) to select a group … of states against which the labor market trends of Arizona can be compared. Our results suggest that contrary to its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347121
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Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act reduce the state's unauthorized immigrant population?
Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2011
We test for an effect of Arizona's 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state population … states against which the population trends of Arizona can be compared. We document a notable and statistically significant … reduction in the proportion of the Arizona population that is foreign-born and in particular, that is Hispanic noncitizen. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009296320
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Interstate mobility patterns of likely unauthorized immigrants : evidence from Arizona
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Lozano, Fernando - 2017
this question using Arizona as a case study. Specifically, we examine the destinations of Mexican non-citizens leaving … Arizona for other states in the union following the adoption of tougher enforcement measures using two different groups of … synthetic control method. We find that Mexican non-citizens who migrated from Arizona to other U.S. states went, primarily, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641405
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716525
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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716529
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716531
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Immigrants and welfare programmes : exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy
Barrett, Alan (contributor); McCarthy, Yvonne (contributor) - 2008
The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716533
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The effect of minimum wages on immigrants' employment and earnings
Orrenius, Pia M. (contributor);  … - 2008
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716537
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Training background and early retirement
Montizaan, Raymond (contributor);  … - 2008
Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that workers with firm-specific skills retire earlier. This paper tests this prediction using US data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716542