The Unintended Consequence of Stringent Immigration Enforcement on Staffing in Nursing Homes: Evidence from Secure Communities

Christian Gunadi

No 1286, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: The provision of healthcare in the United States is increasingly more reliant on immigrant workers. In this paper, I examine the impact of Secure Communities, a major immigration enforcement program that was designed to check the immigration status of all individuals arrested by local police, on staffing in nursing homes. Using difference-in-differences strategy that exploits staggered activation of Secure Communities across U.S counties, I found that the program reduced direct-care staff hours per resident day by 0.082, an approximately 2.2% decline relative to the mean of treatment counties in the baseline period. This finding suggests that stringent immigration enforcement may exacerbate the healthcare worker shortage in the United States.

Keywords: Staffing; Nursing Homes; Secure Communities; Immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 J15 J2 J61 K37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea, nep-int, nep-law, nep-mfd and nep-mig
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