Undocumented Workers� Employment across U.S. Business Cycles

David Brown, Şerife Genç İleri (), Julie Hothckiss and Myriam Quispe-Agnoli ()

Working Papers from Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Abstract: Using matched employer-employee data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates how employment of undocumented workers varies along the business cycle and how it differs from the adjustment in employment of documented workers. The cyclical component of undocumented employment is found to be significantly more volatile than the cyclical component of documented employment. Simulation results indicate that complementarities between documented workers and capital account for almost 90 percent of the difference in measured volatility between documented and undocumented employment.

Keywords: business cycles; illegal immigration; undocumented workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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