of such effect our model shows that increasing deportation rates and tightening border control weakens the low … immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low skilled. Legalization, instead decreases the unemployment rate of low …

of such effect our model shows that increasing deportation rates and tightening border control weakens the low … immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low skilled. Legalization, instead decreases the unemployment rate of low …

This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor …, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …