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U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice

Bohn, Sarah - 2013

officers assigned to prevent unauthorized migrants from entering a state decreases that state's share of Mexican immigrants by …

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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees … and female irregular migrants are positively self-selected with respect to human capital, while male irregular migrants …

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Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act Reduce the State's Unauthorized Immigrant Population?

Bohn, Sarah - 2011

We test for an effect of Arizona's 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state population characterized as foreign-born, as non-citizen, and as non-citizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control method to select a group of states against which the population trends of...

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U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2013

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...

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On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration

Dustmann, Christian - 2016

migrations, contrasting economic and refugee migrants, discussing the trade-offs between long-term asylum and temporary …, we illustrate the economic integration of past refugee migrants to EU countries and conclude with several policy …

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De Facto Immigration Enforcement, Ice Raid Awareness, and Worker Engagement

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Antman, Francisca M. - 2023

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...

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How Do E-Verify Mandates Affect Unauthorized Immigrant Workers?

Orrenius, Pia M. - 2014

A number of states have adopted laws that require employers to use the federal government's E-Verify program to check workers' eligibility to work legally in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey, this study examines whether such laws affect labor market outcomes among...

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Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina - 2017

Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for approximately 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone. Children enter the foster care system when their parents are apprehended, deported and unable to care for them. We find that the average increase in interior immigration...

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Did Employer Sanctions Lose Their Bite? Labor Market Effects of Immigrant Legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2010

Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...

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Migration and Stratification

Jasso, Guillermina - 2011

Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances – who gets what and why – and migration is about improving life chances – getting...

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