On estimating the effects of immigrant legalization: do U.S. agricultural workers really benefit?
The question of whether legalization affects immigrants’ economic returns has been the focus of many empirical studies in recent decades. Results have consistently shown that there are significant wage dif ferences between legal and illegal workers. However, the validity of such findings has been qu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Instituição de Ensino Superior e de Pesquisa (INSPER) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da INSPER |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.insper.edu.br:11224/4858 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://repositorio.insper.edu.br/handle/11224/4858 https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aat012 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Economic outcomes Undocumented workers Immigration Identification |
| Sumario: | The question of whether legalization affects immigrants’ economic returns has been the focus of many empirical studies in recent decades. Results have consistently shown that there are significant wage dif ferences between legal and illegal workers. However, the validity of such findings has been questioned, given the lack of good identification strategies to account for omitted variables. In this article we pro pose using techniques designed to address the issue of selection into treatment based (to some degree) on unobservables. Our results suggest that lower skill levels—not discrimination—explain differences in immigrants’ economic outcomes |
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