The impact of E‐Verify mandates on labor market outcomes

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline

doi:10.1002/soej.12023

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“…However, there is little empirical support to date for the validity of this prediction. In the U.S., interior enforcement policies that reduce the number of unauthorized immigrants appear to lead to, if anything, better labor market outcomes among competing groups of natives and legal immigrants (Orrenius and Zavodny, 2015b).…”

Section: Labor Market Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, at least some of those unauthorized immigrants may have just moved to other states, not left the country entirely. Employment eligibility verification requirements have also led to worse labor market outcomes for unauthorized immigrants, especially for men (e.g., Amuedo-Dorantes and Bansak, 2014;Bohn and Lofstrom, 2013;Orrenius and Zavodny, 2015b).…”

Section: Border and Interior Enforcementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Irregular Immigration in the European Union

Orrenius¹,

Zavodny²

2016

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Unauthorized immigration is on the rise again in the EU. Although precise estimates are hard to come by, proximity to nations in turmoil and the promise of a better life have drawn hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants to the EU in 2014-2015. Further complicating the ongoing challenge is the confounding flow of humanitarian migrants, who are fleeing not for a job but for their lives. Those who flee for better economic conditions are irregular migrants, not humanitarian migrants, but the lines between the two are often blurred. This policy brief surveys the state of irregular immigration to the EU and draws on lessons from the U.S. experience. It focuses on economic aspects of unauthorized immigration. There are economic benefits to receiving countries as well as to unauthorized migrants themselves, but those benefits require that migrants are able to access the labor market and that prices and wages are flexible. Meanwhile, mitigating fiscal costs requires limiting access to public assistance programs for newcomers. Successfully addressing irregular migration is likely to require considerable coordination and cost-sharing among EU member states. JEL Classification: J15; J31; J61

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Section: Border and Interior Enforcementmentioning

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Irregular Immigration in the European Union

Orrenius¹,

Zavodny²

2016

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“…Undocumented immigrants earn lower wages than comparable workers with legal status. Recent changes in state policies in the U.S., such as mandatory electronic verification of work authorization, have exacerbated the unauthorized worker wage penalty in those states and pushed some of those workers out of wage and salary jobs and into self‐employment (Bohn and Löfström, ; Orrenius and Zavodny, in press). Lack of legal status also slows the acquisition of English‐speaking skills and reduces female labor force participation (Pan, ).…”

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The International Migration Review at 50: Reflecting on Half a Century of International Migration Research and Looking Ahead

Lee

Carling

Orrenius

2014

International Migration Review

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When the International Migration Review was established half a century ago, international migration was a peripheral area of research, and migration issues were far less prominent on policy agendas than they are today. This essay introduces the 50th Anniversary Issue of the International Migration Review and begins by identifying seven main areas of change in migration research and migration trends during the journal's lifetime. Subsequently, we examine changes in the geographical distribution of authorship of IMR articles. We also explore the IMR's current positioning in the scientific landscape by analyzing citation relationships with other journals. The ten articles that make up the body of the special issue seek to advance the research frontier on international migration, covering diverse areas of the IMR's thematic scope. We account for how the papers were selected and present each one. In the final section of the article, we look ahead and suggest new frontiers in international migration research. Among the research themes that we foresee as increasingly important are connections between migration and inequality, and the growth of migration flows that are driven by humanitarian crises, but not accommodated by the international refugee regime.

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“…After Arizona became the first state to require virtually all employers to electronically verify new hires' eligibility to work in the USA, wage-and-salary employment fell among non-US citizen Hispanics there while self-employment rose (Bohn and Lofstrom 2013). Nationwide, unauthorized immigrants' employment and earnings tended to fall in states that adopted E-Verify laws, although there is also some evidence of positive effects on earnings and labor force participation Bansak 2012, 2014;Orrenius and Zavodny 2015).…”

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Do state work eligibility verification laws reduce unauthorized immigration?

Orrenius

Zavodny

2016

IZA J Migration

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During the 2000s, several states adopted laws requiring employers to verify new employees' eligibility to work legally in the USA. This study uses data from the 2005-2014 American Community Survey to examine how such laws affect unauthorized immigrants' locational choices. The results indicate that having an E-Verify law reduces the number of less-educated prime-age immigrants from Mexico and Central America-immigrants who are likely to be unauthorized-living in a state. We find evidence that some new migrants are diverted to other states, but also suggestive evidence that some alreadypresent migrants leave the country entirely.JEL codes: J15, J61, J68

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The impact of E‐Verify mandates on labor market outcomes

Cited by 62 publications

References 18 publications

Irregular Immigration in the European Union

Irregular Immigration in the European Union

The International Migration Review at 50: Reflecting on Half a Century of International Migration Research and Looking Ahead

Do state work eligibility verification laws reduce unauthorized immigration?

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