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Efforts to reform immigration are, at a minimum, delayed because of lack of support in the U.S. Congress. Attempts to … impose more restrictive measures are expected in the coming year. Whether new legislation is pro-immigration or anti-immigration …, it is important to understand the rules, quotas, and reality of the current employment-based immigration system if we are …
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of immigration reform. Reform of the immigration system is long overdue, but in pursuing such reform, Congress should … cast a broad net and recognize the health policies embedded in immigration laws. Some immigration laws undermine health … policies designed to improve individual and population health. For example, immigration inadmissibility and deportability laws …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that introduced an exogenous discontinuity in eligibility based on...
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using variation from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Our empirical approach compares trends in birth …
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I examine the effects that the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized almost 3 million …
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immigration to evaluate some recent proposals for immigration reform in terms of their effects on the economic welfare of natives … in the United States. In particular, I consider the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act, a … bill that would cut immigration to half of its current level. President Donald Trump has endorsed the RAISE Act and has …
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