ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SB1070 IN ARIZONA

Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes and Fernando Lozano ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

Economic Inquiry, 2015, vol. 53, issue 1, 335-351

Abstract: We investigate the effectiveness of Arizona's omnibus immigration law SB1070, which made it a misdemeanor crime for an alien to not carry proper documentation and asked police to determine the immigration status of any person suspected of being an illegal alien during a lawful stop. We find that SB1070's enactment coincided with the stalling to slight recovery of the share of non‐citizen Hispanics in Arizona 3 years after the enactment of an employment verification mandate to all employers. Yet, its effectiveness in reducing the share of likely unauthorized immigrants has been minimal and questions the merit of the law. (JEL J61, J1)

Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12138

Related works:
Working Paper: On the Effectiveness of SB1070 in Arizona (2014)
Working Paper: On the Effectiveness of SB1070 in Arizona (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:ecinqu:v:53:y:2015:i:1:p:335-351

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://ordering.onl ... s.aspx?ref=1465-7295

Access Statistics for this article

Economic Inquiry is currently edited by Tim Salmon

More articles in Economic Inquiry from Western Economic Association International Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().