Modeling How Immigration Reform Might Alter the Labor Market for Foreign-born Workers

Steven Zahniser and William Kandel

No 401259, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Purpose of presentation: • To share information about our ongoing research with Peter Dixon and Maureen Rimmer of Monash University about how possible changes to U.S. immigration law might affect the U.S. economy • Our focus is the impact of alternative labor-market scenarios associated with these changes on U.S. agriculture and the market for hired farm labor • Main research tool: A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the U.S. economy called USAGE • Financed in part by a cooperative agreement between ERS and Monash University.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Research Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10
Date: 2009-05
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.401259

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