Arbeitspapier
The wage impact of undocumented workers
Using administrative, individual-level, longitudinal data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that a documented worker employed by a firm that hires undocumented workers can expect to earn 0.15 percent less than if employed by a firm that does not hire undocumented workers. However, in sectors where there are opportunities for task specialization and benefits from communication skills, documented workers can expect to earn a wage premium of less than 1 percent from being employed at a firm that also hires undocumented workers.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2012-4
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- Subject
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illegal immigrants
immigration
unauthorized immigration
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hotchkiss, Julie L.
Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam
Rios-Avila, Fernando
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
- (where)
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Atlanta, GA
- (when)
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hotchkiss, Julie L.
- Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam
- Rios-Avila, Fernando
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Time of origin
- 2012
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