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Barcellos, Silvia - 2010

paper presents a new approach to the analysis of the relationship between immigration and wages based on a panel vector … autoregression (VAR). The VAR analysis of a panel of US states shows that immigration does not have a significant effect on wages or … internal migration. By contrast, wages do affect immigration: a 10 percent increase in wages causes up to a 20 percent increase …

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De facto immigration enforcement, ICE raid awareness, and worker engagement

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Antman, Francisca M. - 2021

We explore whether fear of apprehension affects immigrants' labor market engagement by examining how ICE removals due to immigration violations and increased awareness of immigration raids impact their labor market outcomes. We find that ICE deportations are associated with reductions in the...

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Substitution between immigrant and native farmworkers in the United States : does legal status matter?

Wei, Xuan; Onel, Gulcan; Guan, Zhengfei; Roka, Fritz M. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 1/3, pp. 1-27

The policy debate surrounding the employment of immigrant workers in U.S. agriculture centers around the extent to which immigrant farmworkers adversely affect the economic opportunities of native farmworkers. To help answer this question, we propose a three-layer nested constant elasticity of...

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Stateless : Dominican-Born Grandchildren of Haitian Undocumented Immigrants in the Dominican Republic

Shipley, Kristymarie - 2016

On September 23, 2013, the Dominican Republic's Constitutional Tribunal ruled in the case of Juliana Deguis Pierre that offspring born in the Dominican Republic after 1929 to undocumented immigrants are not Dominican nationals. The 147 page opinion put an end to diverse interpretations of the...

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Chapter 13. Undocumented Immigration and Human Trafficking

Orrenius, Pia; Zavodny, Madeline - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 659-716). 2015

Border and interior enforcement, legal penalties, and the market for smugglers distinguish undocumented migration from legal migration and introduce a number of challenges for migrants, employers, law enforcement, and policymakers. This chapter reviews the theoretical models and empirical...

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The Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 2017

Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States, and there has been a heated debate over the impact of legislative or executive efforts to regularize the status of this population. This paper examines the determinants of earnings for undocumented workers. Using newly developed...

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Comparing wage gains from different immigrant legalization programs

Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2018

We use data from the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) for data on immigrants who were legalized based on family ties or small-scale legalization programs, and the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) for data on immigrants legalized by the IRCA. Estimates suggest that the increase in wage after...

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