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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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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,...
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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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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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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 …
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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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activities are more promising as British Columbia and California have started using market-based approaches recently. Against … results of the British Columbia Carbon Tax and the California Cap-and-Trade Program and evaluates them based on sustainability …
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investigates this effect empirically using data on California municipalities. For various reasons, a simple correlation between …
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This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether … simulations suggest that a 10 percent increase could cause a 3.4 percent employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job … populated counties of California are expected to incur the largest employment loss in terms of the number of workers, the …
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California is world-renowned for the ability to produce world class quality wine. At the center of this achievement is …-wide data on the wine industry to compare Napa's success with other wine-producing regions of California, we can control for … different historical factors and economic conditions that temper most comparative wine studies. Many regions in California can …
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