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Maximum likelihood estimation and lagrange multiplier tests for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with spatial lag and spatial errors: An application to hedonic housing prices...

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges - 2010

This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and spatial error components. We study the general case where spatial effects are incorporated via spatial errors terms and via a spatial lag dependent variable and where the...

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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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Interstate Mobility Patterns of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants: Evidence from Arizona

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Lozano, Fernando A. - 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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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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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 …

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Employment Effects of State Legislation against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Wages and Employment Growth : Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany

Suedekum, Jens; Blien, Uwe - 2004

We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very...

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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus

Verashchagina, Alina; Pastore, Francesco - 2004

This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...

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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2000

In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...

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