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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2007

In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...

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Modeling immigrants' language skills

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2007

One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...

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The fertility effect of catastrophe : US hurricane births

Evans, Richard W. (contributor); Hu, Yingyao (contributor); … - 2007

For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...

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How disasters affect local labor markets : the effects of hurricanes in Florida

Belasen, Ariel R. (contributor); … - 2007

Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...

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What explains trends in labor force participation of older men in the United States?

Blau, David (contributor); Goodstein, Ryan (contributor) - 2007

After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We use a time series of cross sections from 1962 to 2005 to model the LFPR of men aged 55-69, with the aim of...

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Effects of low-skilled immigration on U.S. natives : evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana D. (contributor); Yuksel, Mutlu (contributor) - 2008

In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...

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