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Title: By the Time I Get to Arizona: Estimating the Impact of the Legal Arizona Workers Act on Migrant Outflows

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: In 2007, the State of Arizona passed the Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) which required all employers to verify the legal status of all prospective employees. Using the American Community Survey, we show that LAWA induced a large emigration away from Arizona. We estimate that roughly 36,000 Mexican-born people left Arizona as a consequence of LAWA and that about 25% of those who left relocated to New mexico suggesting that LAWA had spillovers on adjoining states. Finally, the effects of LAWA were the most pronounced in the farming and construction sectors.

Url: http://www.economics.hawaii.edu/research/workingpapers/WP_15-8.pdf

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Authors: Halliday, Timothy J.; Liou, Wayne

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Publication Number: 15-08

Institution: University of Hawai'i at Manoa

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Publisher Location: Manoa, HI

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other

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