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The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Cornell, Paul; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States using variation from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Our empirical approach compares trends in birth outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across...

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The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons : Evidence from Venezuelan Entrepreneurs

Bahar, Dany; Cowgill, Bo; Guzman, Jorge - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper shows that providing undocumented immigrants with an immigration pardon, or amnesty, increases their economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal business registry, we study a 2018 policy shift in Colombia...

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The Crime Effect of Refugees

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...

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Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety

Gonçalves, Felipe M.; Jácome, Elisa; Weisburst, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How does immigration enforcement affect public safety? Heightened enforcement could reduce crime by deterring and incapacitating immigrant offenders or, alternatively, increase crime by discouraging victims from reporting offenses. We study the U.S. Secure Communities program, which expanded...

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Driving Towards Integration : Early Childhood Education Implications of Extending Driving Privileges to Undocumented Immigrants

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Deza, Monica; Kostandini, Genti - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the effect of granting access to driver licenses to undocumented immigrants on their offspring's access to early childhood education (ECE). Using individual-level data from the ACS, we find that granting driving privileges to undocumented immigrants leads to a 6% increase in ECE...

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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage

Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

received their K-12 education domestically). We obtain similar results for immigrant sorting in Canada, which supports our …

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Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills : A Comparison of Canada and the United States

Borjas, George J. - 1991

Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …

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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program

Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

choice of immigrant founders, by leveraging the introduction of Canada's Start-up Visa Program in 2013. We demonstrate that … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … show that Asian immigrants (who have a higher representation in Canada than in the U.S.) are disproportionately more likely …

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Illegal Immigration : The Trump Effect

Hoekstra, Mark; Orozco-Aleman, Sandra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of increasingly provocative anti-immigrant politicians in both Europe and the United States. We examine whether the 2016 election of Donald Trump, who made illegal immigration and border enforcement a centerpiece of his campaign, reduced illegal...

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Ageing and Welfare-State Policy Making : Macroeconomic Perspective

Razin, Asaf; Schwemmer, Alexander H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

It has been well recognized that population ageing could generate structural changes centered around the dwindling labor force, on one hand, and the expanding dependency on the generosity of the welfare state, on the other hand. Ageing-related welfare state policy entails both fiscal issues and...

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