Economic Impacts
The articles and papers included below investigate the effects of immigration and Amnesty programs on labor markets, both for immigrants and non-immigrants.
Bibliography
1) "Coming Out of the Shadows: Learning about Legal Status and Wages from the Legalized Population"
Deborah Cobb-Clark & Sherrie A. Kossoudji. Journal of Labor Economics. 20(3) 2002.
2) "IRCA’s impact on the Occupational Concentration and Mobility on Newly-Legalized Mexican Men"
Deborah Cobb-Clark & Sherrie A. Kossoudji. Journal of Population Economics, 13(1), February 2000, p.81-98.
3) "Immigration Reform: The Effects of Employer Sanctions and Legalization on Wages"
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark; Clinton R. Shiells; B. Lindsay Lowell,
Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 13, No. 3. (Jul., 1995), pp. 472-498.
4) "The New Labor Market: Immigrants and Wages after IRCA" (in Citation Consequences of Policy Shifts and Political Change)
Julie A. Phillips; Douglas S. Massey
Demography, Vol. 36, No. 2. (May, 1999), pp. 233-246.
5) "Gender Differences in the occupational status of the Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S: Experience before and after Legalization"
Mary G. Powers, William Seltzer, Jin Shi. International Migration Review, Vol.32, No.4 (Winter 1998), 1015-1046.
6) "The Impact of IRCA on the Job Opportunities and Earnings of Mexican-American and Hispanic-American Workers". (Immigration Reform and Control Act)
Davila, Alberto, Pagan, Jose A., & Grau, Montserrat Viladrich, International Migration Review 32,1 (Spring 1998): 79(17)
7) "The Effect of Naturalization on Wage Growth—A Panel Study of Young Male Immigrants" Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics
Bernt Bratsberg, James F. Ragan, Jr., Zafar M. Nasir, April 2001
http://www.ksu.edu/economics/bernt/naturalization_jole.pdf
8) "Unauthorized Workers and Immigration Reform: What Can We Ascertain from Employers?"
B. Lindsay Lowell; Zhongren Jing
International Migration Review, Vol. 28, No. 3. (Autumn, 1994), pp. 427-448.
9) "Undocumented workers in the labor market. An analysis of the earnings of legal and ilegal Mexican immigrants in the U.S."
Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Department of Economics, Columbia University
Journal of Population Economics, 12, February 1999, p.91-116.
10) "U.S. Immigration Policy and the Wages of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants"
Peter Bartholomew Brownell, University of California at Berkeley
Department of Sociology
April 22, 2002
11) "Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market." March 2000.
Stephen J. Trejo, Department of Economics, Univesity of Texas.
12) "The Employment and Wages of Legalized Immigrants"
Borjas George, and Tienda, Marta.
International Migration Review, Vol. 27, No.4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 712-747.
13) In The New Americans: Economic, demographic and fiscal effects of immigration"
National Research Council, 1997
a. "Immigration’s effects in jobs and wages: first principles"
b. "Immigration’s effects in jobs and wages: empirical evidence"
c. "Do immigrants impose a net fiscal burden? Annual estimates
d. "The future fiscal impacts of current immigrants"
e. "The social dimensions of immigration"



