We examine the labor market effects of Secure Communities (SC), a police-based
immigration enforcement policy implemented in 2008–13. Using variation in implementation …

This book, in its second edition, introduces readers to the economics of immigration, which is
a booming field within economics. The main themes and objectives of the book are for …

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 …

The past two decades have witnessed an unprecedented increase in interior immigration
enforcement that may have adversely impacted the children of unauthorized migrants—the …

Tougher immigration enforcement was responsible for 1.8 million deportations between
2009 and 2013 alone—many of them were fathers of American children. We exploit the …

Over the last years several states have enacted policies granting undocumented immigrants
access to driver's licenses. We exploit the state and temporal variation in the issuing of state …

During the 2000s, several states adopted laws requiring employers to verify new employees'
eligibility to work legally in the USA. This study uses data from the 2005–2014 American …

Welfare reform in 1996 created a new, large disparity in Food Stamp eligibility between
documented non-citizen immigrants and natives. Subsequent policies restored eligibility for …

Immigration enforcement has intensified in the United States, but there is little evidence on
its effect on US-born individuals' labor outcomes. Exploiting the staggered rollout of a large …

We examine the impact of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment
outcomes of low‐skilled legal workers. We use the synthetic control method to select a group …