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Coming out of the shadows: learning about legal status and wages from the legalized population

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dc.contributor.authorKossoudji, Sherrie
dc.contributor.authorCobb-Clark, Deborah
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T23:24:38Z
dc.date.available2015-12-13T23:24:38Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T09:21:12Z
dc.description.abstractThe 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) granted amnesty to approximately 1.7 million long-term unauthorized workers in an effort to bring them "out of the shadows" and improve their labor market opportunities. An analysis of wages using panel data for a sample of legalized men provides evidence that wage determinants are structurally different after amnesty for them but not for the comparison group as measured during the same time periods. The wage penalty for being unauthorized is estimated to range from 14% to 24%. The wage benefit of legalization under IRCA was approximately 6%.
dc.identifier.issn0734-306X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/92304
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Press
dc.sourceJournal of Labor Economics
dc.titleComing out of the shadows: learning about legal status and wages from the legalized population
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage628
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage598
local.contributor.affiliationKossoudji, Sherrie, University of Michigan
local.contributor.affiliationCobb-Clark, Deborah, College of Business and Economics, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidCobb-Clark, Deborah, u9500897
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor140211 - Labour Economics
local.identifier.absfor140304 - Panel Data Analysis
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub23355
local.identifier.citationvolume20
local.identifier.doi10.1086/339611
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-0036056924
local.type.statusPublished Version

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