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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401700
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Achieving Lisbon: The EU's R&D challenge. The role of the public sector and implications of US best practice on regional policymaking in Europe
Neuer, Kim Dobbie - 2010
In 2000, the European Council set its sights on becoming the world's top knowledge-based economy. To that end, they aimed to achieve a goal of spending 3% of GDP on research and development by 2010. Their Lisbon Strategy recommended a number of efforts on the European Union and national levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368389
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653413
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278770
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On the Effectiveness of SB1070 in Arizona
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Lozano, Fernando Antonio - 2014
We investigate the effectiveness of Arizona's omnibus immigration law SB1070, which made it a misdemeanor crime for an … of the share of non-citizen Hispanics in Arizona three years after the enactment of an employment verification mandate to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533082
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283983
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National and international developments in technology – Trends, patterns and implications for policy
Koopmann, Georg; Münnich, Felix - 1999
Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. Deviations of individual OECD countries from the average R&D intensity reflect differences in industry structure as well as in sectoral R&D intensity. At the same time, the sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295338
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The "efficiency defense" in the US American merger policy
Kinne, Konstanze - 1998
Efficiencies have yet not played a prominent role in American merger enforcement policy, although the federal antitrust agencies and the courts have recognized efficiencies as a factor in merger analysis that may tilt the balance in an otherwise anticompetitive transaction. A review of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295347
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EMU and transatlantic economic relations
Kenen, Peter B. - 1998
When I wrote my book on EMU four years ago (Kenen 1995), very little had been written on the international dimensions of EMU There was a chapter in the Commission's path-breaking study (European Commission, 1990). There were papers by Alogoskoufis and Portes (1991, 1992), Cooper (1992), Goodhart...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295354
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Money demand in a banking time economy
Gillman, Max; Otto, Glenn - 2003
The paper presents a theory of the demand for money that combines a special case of the shopping time exchange economy with the cash-in-advance framework. The model predicts that both higher inflation and financial innovation - that reduces the cost of credit - induce agents to substitute away...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295387