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Title: Employment Effects of State Legislation

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2013

ISBN: 9781610448048

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Abstract: The United States is home to a large and growing number of unauthorized immigrants. The most recent estimates indicate that this population increased from about 3 million in the late 1980s to around 11 million in 2009 (Passel and Cohn 2010). The legal immigrant population has also grown substantially over this time, as described in chapter 1 and throughout this volume, but the unauthorized immigrant population has grown at an even higher rate. Not surprisingly, the size and growth of the unauthorized population has not gone unnoticed and is the source of much controversy surrounding immigration policy. Reflected in both...

Url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610448048

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Authors: Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus

Editors: Card, David; Raphael, Steven

Pages: 282-420

Volume Title: Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Publisher Location: New York City, NY, USA

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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