Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act Reduce the State's Unauthorized Immigrant Population?

Abstract

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U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice

“…Our policy control variables account for the passage of any deterrent laws, signed by the governor and related only to employment and enforcement. Similar laws have been shown to have significant impacts on the location choice of immigrants, as in (Bohn et al 2011). Additional laws, for example those constricting immigrant access to public services, may also be relevant to immigrant location choice.…”

“…As arguably the most mobile demographic group in the U.S., immigrants consider several factors when choosing where to reside, including the presence of others from their home communities (Bartel 1989, Munshi 2003, local employment opportunities (Cadena 2007, Cadena 2013, state immigration policies (Bohn, Lofstrom and Raphael 2011), and migration costs (Orrenius 1999, Chiquiar andHanson 2005). The link between enforcement and location choice is probably most directly related to the latter.…”

Do Right to Work Laws Worsen Income Inequality? Evidence from the Last Five Decades

“…Bertrand et al (2004) also emphasize that regression-based difference-in-difference analyses tend to overstate the significance of the policy intervention in state-level policy analyses. We, therefore, apply the permutations or randomization test (Bertrand et al, 2004, Abadie et al, 2010, Buchmueller et al, 2011, Bohn et al, 2014 that SCM readily provides.…”

Unauthorized Mexican Workers in the United States: Recent Inflows and Possible Future Scenarios

“…Studies that use less-educated Hispanic immigrants as a proxy for unauthorized immigrants include Bansak (2012, 2014), Bohn, Lofstrom, and Raphael (2014), and Zavodny (2015, 2016). This measure has the advantage of simplicity but mistakenly counts less-educated legal immigrants as unauthorized and more-educated unauthorized immigrants as legal.…”