By the Time I Get to Arizona: Estimating the Impact of the Legal Arizona Workers Act on Migrant Outflows

Timothy Halliday and Wayne Liou

No 201508, Working Papers from University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics

Abstract: In 2007, the State of Arizona passed the Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) which required all employers to verify the legal status of all prospective employ ees. Using the American Community Survey, we show that LAWA induced a large emigration away from Arizona. We estimate that roughly 36,000 Mexican-born people left Arizona as a consequence of LAWA and that about 25% of those who left relocated to New Mexico suggesting that LAWA had spillovers on adjoining states. Finally, the effects of LAWA were the most pronounced in the farming and construction sectors.

Keywords: E-Verify; Legal Arizona Workers Act; Spillover (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06
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