The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement

Serie

• IZA Discussion Papers

Resumen

• This paper examines the effects of reducing the supply of low-skilled immigrant workers on the labor market outcomes of domestic workers. We use temporal and geographic variation in the introduction of Secure Communities (SC), a county-based immigration enforcement policy, combined with data over 2005-2014 from the American Community Survey to estimate a difference-in-difference model with geographic and time fixed effects. We find evidence that SC had a negative impact on the employment of low-skilled non-citizen workers, who are likely to be directly affected by the policy. Importantly, we also find that SC negatively impacted the employment of citizens working in middle to high-skill occupations. This is the first paper to provide quasi-experimental evidence on the labor market effects of immigration enforcement policies on citizens across the occupational skill distribution, which is of paramount importance given the current immigration policy debates.

autores

• East, Chloe N.
• Luck, Philip
• Mansour, Hani
• Velásquez, Andrea

fecha de publicación

• 2018

Área temática

• F22 - Migraciones internacionales
• J11 - Tendencias demográficas, previsiones y efectos macroeconómicos
• J23 - Demanda de trabajo
• K37 - Ley de inmigración

Enfoque geográfico

• Estados Unidos  Country
• North America  Continent

Líneas de investigación

• immigration policy
• international migration
• labor demand

Issue

• 11486