The Impact of Party Affiliation of U.S. Governors on Immigrants' Labor-Market Outcomes

Louis-Philippe Beland and Bulent Unel (bunel@lsu.edu)

Departmental Working Papers from Department of Economics, Louisiana State University

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. We present evidence that Democratic governors implement policies which create better labor-market conditions in certain occupations where immigrants are concentrated. Our findings are robust to a number of different specifications, controls, and samples.

Date: 2015-01
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