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The impact of temporary protected status on immigrants' labor market outcomes
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2014
, most of whom are unauthorized prior to receiving TPS. This study examines how migrants from El Salvador who are likely to … have received TPS fare in the labor market compared with other migrants. The results suggest that TPS eligibility leads to …
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The labor market effects of immigration enforcement
East, Chloe N.; Luck, Philip; Mansour, Hani; … - 2018
This paper examines the effects of reducing the supply of low-skilled immigrant workers on the labor market outcomes of domestic workers. We use temporal and geographic variation in the introduction of Secure Communities (SC), a county-based immigration enforcement policy, combined with data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849646
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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2017
1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785580
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New directions in immigration policy : Canada's evolving approach to the selection of economic immigrants
Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, William Craig - 2014
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442319
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Understanding the role of immigrants' legal status : evidence from policy experiments
Fasani, Francesco - 2014
Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has attempted to understand the effect of lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418913
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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … embodied in migrants; assimilation, the degree to which migrants' productivity determinants become like natives' over time in …
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De facto immigration enforcement, ICE raid awareness, and worker engagement
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Antman, Francisca M. - 2021
We explore whether fear of apprehension affects immigrants' labor market engagement by examining how ICE removals due to immigration violations and increased awareness of immigration raids impact their labor market outcomes. We find that ICE deportations are associated with reductions in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604158
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Legalization and long-term outcomes of immigrant workers
Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2022
This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171785
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Immigration policy and the rise of self-employment among Mexican immigrants
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2020
Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest immigrant population in the country. This is an interesting yet puzzling trend, in stark contrast to the stagnated growth of self-employment among other disadvantaged minority...
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An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries
Edo, Anthony; Ragot, Lionel; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020
practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295298