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

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 2, pp. 258-269

We test for an effect of Arizona's 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state's population characterized as noncitizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control method to select a group of states against which Arizona's population trends can be compared. We document a...

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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

opportunities as a way to deter further illegal immigration and as such is likely to increase poverty among an already marginalized …

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Tensions that Make a Difference: Institutions, Interests, and the Immigrant Drive

Portes, Alejandro - Center for Migration and Development Studies, Woodrow … - 2011

This essay examines the dynamics underlying contemporary South-North population displacements and the common gaps between public perceptions of the phenomenon and actual realities. I analyze these dynamics and gaps by focusing on the clash between opposing forces at various stages of the...

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Immigration, Ethnic Diversity and Political Outcomes: Evidence from Denmark

Harmon, Nikolaj A. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2012

I study the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on political outcomes in immigrant receiving countries, focusing … on the case of election outcomes and immigration in Danish municipalities 1981-2001. A rich set of control variables … housing stock data addresses issues of endogenous location choice of immigrants. Immigration-driven increases in ethnic …

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