Arbeitspapier
The labor market experience and impact of undocumented workers
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share of undocumented workers in those industries further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers have significantly lower labor supply elasticity, likely as a result of their limited employment and grievance opportunities. Furthermore, the inflow of undocumented workers does more to displace earlier hired undocumented workers than it does to displace documented workers.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2008-7c
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
International Migration
- Subject
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immigration
wage impact
worker displacement
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hotchkiss, Julie L.
Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam
- 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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2008
- 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
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Time of origin
- 2008
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