PROPOSED IMMIGRATION POLICY REFORM & FARM LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES

Lurleen M. Walters, Robert D. Emerson and Nobuyuki Iwai

No 6285, 2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The issue of legalization for unauthorized farm workers is examined in this paper. The analytical framework uses a treatment effects approach which casts legalization as a treatment under the assumption of heterogeneity. The results show an overall positive impact of legalization on farm worker wage outcomes and with the expected positive sorting on the gains from legal status.

Keywords: International Relations/Trade; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.6285

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