The impact of party affiliation of US governors on immigrants’ labor market outcomes

Louis-Philippe Beland and Bulent Unel ()

Journal of Population Economics, 2018, vol. 31, issue 2, No 10, 627-670

Abstract: Abstract Do immigrants have better labor market outcomes under Democratic governors? By exploiting variations associated with close elections in a regression discontinuity (RD) design applied on gubernatorial elections in 50 states over the last two decades, we find that immigrants are more likely to be employed, work longer hours and more weeks, and have higher earnings under Democratic governors. Results are robust to a number of different specifications, controls, and samples.

Keywords: Earning gaps; Immigration; Labor market outcomes; Political parties; Regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 J15 J21 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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