Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
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United States: American Economic Association
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English
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United States: American Economic Association
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An important class of active labor market policy has received little impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to raise wages and employment by shrinking labor supply. Theories of endogenous technical advance raise the possibility of limited or even perverse impact. We study a natural policy experiment: the exclusion of almost half a million...
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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
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0002-8282
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1944-7981
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10.1257/aer.20170765
