As recent efforts to reform immigration policy at the federal level have failed, states have started to take immigration matters into their own hands and researchers have been paying closer attention to state dynamics surrounding immigration policy. Yet, to this date, there is not a clear...

Using the Current Population Surveys, the authors investigate whether sanctions against employers for hiring undocumented workers, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), adversely affected the hourly earnings of Latino workers in the southwestern United States. The...

Many students understand that majoring in economics will give them access to numerous entry level careers. Upon graduating, however, they may have a great deal of uncertainty about career direction without the information and skills necessary to make the successful transition from classrooms to...

Capacity utilization has been a valuable indicator of inflationary pressure. Yet recent technological changes have made relationships between inputs and outputs more flexible, possibly eroding the predictive value of the utilization rate. This paper shows that, conceptually, technological change...

Using the Current Population Surveys, the authors investigate whether employer sanctions for hiring undocumented workers introduced by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) adversely affected the hourly earnings of Latino workers in the southwestern United States. The analysis...

To assess whether near-poor parents' job mobility is reduced due to the non-portability of employer-provided health insurance--an effect termed job lock--the authors examine data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation for 1996 and 2001, years bracketing the introduction of the State...