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immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the impact of a tougher policy environment on …
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-based immigration enforcement policy, combined with data over 2005-2014 from the American Community Survey to estimate a difference …- experimental evidence on the labor market effects of immigration enforcement policies on citizens across the occupational skill … distribution, which is of paramount importance given the current immigration policy debates. …
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. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … characteristic of the U.S. immigration policy during that time span, might have contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …
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The past two decades have been characterized by an unprecedented increase in interior immigration enforcement and … immigration enforcement within U.S. counties. We find that intensified enforcement, especially during the third trimester … importance of current immigration policies in shaping the birth outcomes of many American children. …
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This paper exploits the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of local and state immigration … American Community Survey, we find that a one standard deviation increase in the intensity of immigration enforcement lowers … the sustainability of the welfare state and the spread-out embracement of a piece-meal approach to immigration enforcement …
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intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in … the implementation of interior immigration enforcement from 2005 to 2017, we find that a one standard deviation increase …
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We estimate the effect of granting legal status to immigrant women on voluntary abortions. We exploit the 2007 EU enlargement as an exogenous shock to legal status for Romanian and Bulgarian women, considering Italy as a destination country. Using a standard Difference-in-Differences model, we...
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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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In this paper, we examine whether acquiring citizenship improves the economic assimilation of Canadian migrants. We took advantage of a natural experiment made possible through changes in the Canadian Citizenship Act of 2014, which extended the physical presence requirement for citizenship from...
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We study a Danish reform in 2002 that lowered the ex ante probability of refugees receiving permanent residency by prolonging the time period before they were eligible to apply for permanent residency. Assignment to the new rules was completely determined by the date of the asylum application...
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