Arenas Arroyo, Esther, Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina, Schmidpeter, Bernhard. 2021. Immigration Enforcement and the Hiring of Low-Skilled Labor. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. 111
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We examine how firms adjust their labor demand to immigration policy changes resulting from intensified interior immigration enforcement. Using the temporal and geographic variation in the adoption of such policies as a source of identification, we find that firms boost their demand for low-skilled foreign-born labor under the H-2B visa program as enforcement intensifies. Furthermore, firms' increased demand for guest workers is inversely related to natives' employment in occupations where most H-2B workers are hired; however, it does not seem to alter natives' wages or work hours, nor does it seem to redistribute native labor away from those occupations.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings |
WU-Journal-Rating new | FIN-A, VW-B |
Language | English |
Title | Immigration Enforcement and the Hiring of Low-Skilled Labor |
Volume | 111 |
Year | 2021 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20211115&ArticleSearch%5Bwithin%5D%5Barticletitle%5D=1&ArticleSearch%5Bwithin%5D%5Barticleabstract%5D=1&ArticleSearch%5Bwithin%5D%5Bauthorlast%5D=1&ArticleSearch%5Bq%5D=arenas&JelClass%5Bvalue%5D=0 |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20211115 |
Open Access | N |
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- People
- Arenas Arroyo, Esther (Details)
- External
- Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina (University California, Merced, United States/USA)
- Schmidpeter, Bernhard (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
- Organization
- Department of Economics (Kartal) (Details)