The effect of mass legalization on US state-level institutions: Evidence from the immigration reform and control act

Yao, Lili; Bolen, J. Brandon; Williamson, Claudia R.

doi:10.1007/s11127-021-00894-x

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“…Borjas (2015) argues that migration of labor, unlike capital, affects institutions that govern economic activity, a fact often ignored by classic economic arguments for free migration (Clemens, 2011; Kennan, 2017). A growing empirical literature addresses this argument and finds no evidence to support Borjas' concerns (Ager & Brueckner, 2018; Bologna Pavlik et al, 2019; Cachanosky et al, 2021; Clark et al, 2015; Clemens & Pritchett, 2019; Nowrasteh et al, 2020; Nowrasteh & Powell, 2020; Padilla & Cachanosky, 2018, 2020; Powell et al, 2017; Tuszynski & Stansel, 2020; Yao et al, 2021). 6…”

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Are economic arguments against immigration missing the boat? The fiscal effects of the Mariel Boatlift

Yao

Bolen

Williamson

2022

Southern Economic Journal

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Opponents of migration argue that natives bear the fiscal costs of immigration. Estimates suggest the longrun fiscal effect of immigration for local governments is negative, largely due to the costs of educating immigrant children. We test whether migration affects local government fiscal outcomes using a synthetic control method and the 1980 Mariel Boatlift as a natural experiment. We find no effect of the mass influx of migrants to Miami on various fiscal outcome measures, suggesting concerns over the fiscal effects of immigration are "missing the boat."

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Are economic arguments against immigration missing the boat? The fiscal effects of the Mariel Boatlift

Yao

Bolen

Williamson

2022

Southern Economic Journal

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“…Most of these studies find a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between the share of immigrants and the level of economic freedom. When the relationship is negative, it is neither statistically nor economically significant (Padilla & Cachanosky, 2018; Padilla et al., 2020; Tuszynski & Stansel, 2020; Yao et al., 2021).…”

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Immigration and economic freedom of the US states: Does the institutional quality of immigrants' origin countries matter?

Padilla

Cachanosky

2022

Contemporary Economic Policy

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When people immigrate to the United States from countries with less economic freedom, they do not dampen economic freedom in their destination states. We use the Economic Freedom of North America report to rate the economic freedom of US states, and we group immigrants by how far below the United States their origin countries score in the Economic Freedom of the World report. Our major findings hold true even when states receive immigrants from countries with far less economic freedom. Most relationships between immigration and the US states' economic freedom scores are neither statistically nor economically significant.

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Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime

Bedi,

Jia,

Kramer

2024

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The effect of mass legalization on US state-level institutions: Evidence from the immigration reform and control act

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

Are economic arguments against immigration missing the boat? The fiscal effects of the Mariel Boatlift

Are economic arguments against immigration missing the boat? The fiscal effects of the Mariel Boatlift

Immigration and economic freedom of the US states: Does the institutional quality of immigrants' origin countries matter?

Protecting Postville? The impact of deportation and immigration on crime

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