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How Do E-Verify Mandates Affect Unauthorized Immigrant Workers?
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A number of states have adopted laws that require employers to use the federal government's E-Verify program to check workers' eligibility to work legally in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey, this study examines whether such laws affect labor market outcomes among...
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Employment Verification Mandates and the Labor Market Outcomes of Likely Unauthorized and Native Workers
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
As recent efforts to reform immigration policy at the federal level have failed, states have started to take immigration matters into their own hands and researchers have been paying closer attention to state dynamics surrounding immigration policy. Yet, to this date, there is not a clear...
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The Petersberg Declaration
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Burda, Michael C.; Konrad, Kai A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Against the background of the worldwide financial market and economic crisis, leading German economists urge policymakers to maintain the reform course in labor market policy. The experts warn not to jeopardize the clearly positive effects of the recent reform efforts. The "Petersberg...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632738
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The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police
Heaton, Paul; Hunt, Priscillia E; MacDonald, John; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city....
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Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker's Perspective
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Bedi, Arjun S.; Basu, Arnab K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We explore three hitherto poorly understood characteristics of the human trafficking market – the cross-border ease of mobility of traffickers, the relative bargaining strength of traffickers and final buyers, and the elasticity of buyers' demand. In a model of two-way bargaining, the exact...
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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
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Location Choices of Migrant Nest-Leavers: Spatial Assimilation or Continued Segregation?
Zorlu, Aslan; Mulder, Clara H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the Netherlands. The analysis provides little evidence of a clear intergenerational break in the location...
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Economic Choices and Status: Measuring Preferences for Income Rank
Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
income, with greater weight given to rank by males, migrants, and individuals from wealthy families. Rank … income distribution. In terms of reference groups, we find migrants who reside abroad for longer periods of time, and with …
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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic … control for migrants' observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evidence that migrants' well … demonstrate that migrants regard home countries as natural comparators and, thereby, suggest an original assessment of the …
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Remittances and Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Akay, Alpaslan; Giulietti, Corrado; Robalino, Juan David; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC … migrants, migration experience and the diversity of family arrangements. As a complementary objective, we use SWB measures to … contractual motivations (such as co-insurance and investment) are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705554