Legalization and human capital accumulation

Fabio Mendez (), Facundo Sepúlveda and Nieves Valdés
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Facundo Sepúlveda: Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Journal of Population Economics, 2016, vol. 29, issue 3, No 3, 756 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents new evidence regarding the effects of legalization on the training of immigrants who were granted legal status through the US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986. Our findings point to a large increase in the immigrants’ incidence of training relative to comparable groups of natives following legalization. While training gains are higher for males, wage gains are higher for females. We also show that an important part of these changes in labor market outcomes occurs through occupation changes by newly legalized immigrants.

Keywords: Legalization; Training; Human capital accumulation; Immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s00148-016-0585-0

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