Do State Employment Eligibility Verification Laws Affect Job Turnover?

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Gutierrez, Emily

doi:10.1111/coep.12251

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“…Wang (2019) relies on a similar approach to show that undocumented immigrants respond to the worsened job market opportunities by becoming self-employed. Other studies explore the state and local variations in immigration policies after 9/11 and find similar results Bansak, 2012, 2014;Bohn and Lofstrom, 2013;Orrenius and Zavodny, 2015;Orrenius et al, 2018).…”

Section: Literature On the Implications Of Immigration Policy And Enforcementmentioning

confidence: 60%

Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?

Amuedo‐Dorantes

Arenas‐Arroyo

Wang³

2020

SSRN Journal

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Section: Literature On the Implications Of Immigration Policy And Enforcementmentioning

confidence: 60%

Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?

Amuedo‐Dorantes

Arenas‐Arroyo

Wang³

2020

SSRN Journal

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“…Orrenius and Zavodny () use this approach and find that tightened immigration policies worsened the wages and employment rates of undocumented immigrants. The other is a state‐local approach that exploits variations in state and local immigration policies, such as the E‐Verify mandate, and reaches similar conclusions (Amuedo‐Dorantes & Bansak, , ; Orrenius, Zavodny, & Gutierrez, ).…”

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confidence: 82%

Tightened Immigration Policies and the Self‐Employment Dynamics of Mexican Immigrants

Wang¹

2019

J Policy Anal Manage

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As the U.S. government has intensified its crackdown on illegal immigration in recent years, an important question to ask is how undocumented immigrants react to the stricter enforcement of immigration laws. This paper seeks to answer whether they increasingly choose self‐employment in an effort to avoid apprehension and subsequent deportation. To guard against endogeneity bias that might stem from increased enforcement in reaction to illegal immigration, the empirical analysis makes use of the September 11 terror attacks (9/11), which inadvertently triggered stricter immigration enforcement nationwide, as a natural experiment. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach and data from the Current Population Survey between 1996 and 2006, this paper examines the changes in the self‐employment choices of male and non‐citizen Mexican immigrants (a proxy for undocumented immigrants) compared to less‐educated Whites (the control group). The findings indicate that male and non‐citizen Mexican immigrants are substantially more likely (40 percent) to enter into self‐employment than less‐educated Whites after 9/11. The analysis further suggests that this finding is not driven by the 2001 recession that coincided with the terror attacks. The increased entries are mainly observed in the group that is most likely to be in the United States illegally and in those who face strong economic incentives. In addition, increased entries are not driven by increased unemployment among Mexican immigrants after the 9/11 event, but, rather, they reflect a change in the behavior of the unemployed Mexican immigrants, perhaps due to changes in perceived risks of detection and deportation.

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Section: Literature On the Implications Of Immigration Policy And Enfmentioning

confidence: 60%

Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?

Amuedo‐Dorantes

Arenas‐Arroyo

Wang

2020

Journal of Public Economics

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Do State Employment Eligibility Verification Laws Affect Job Turnover?

Cited by 18 publications

References 20 publications

Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?

Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?

Tightened Immigration Policies and the Self‐Employment Dynamics of Mexican Immigrants

Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?

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