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This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country … international migration, documented versus undocumented, we examine the impact of the illegal status on wages upon return. Relying …
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
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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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experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s …
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We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify mandates and specifically, we test for effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on...
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Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has attempted to understand the effect of lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour....
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Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has attempted to understand the effect of lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418913
, which impedes the firm's productivity. The impact on the wages and / or employment of the native laborers depends on the …
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, which impedes the firm's productivity. The impact on the wages and / or employment of the native laborers depends on the …
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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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