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Title: Are low-skilled immigration and coresidence substitutes? Evidence from Secure Communities

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: This paper studies the effect of Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that removed a large number of non-citizens from the United States, on the living arrangements of elderly U.S.-born individuals. Using U.S. Census data and exploiting spatial and temporal variation in the implementation of the program, I estimate a difference-indifferences model with location and time-fixed effects. I find that Secure Communities increased the likelihood of coresidence among single elderly by about 3.6 percent. Furthermore , I provide suggestive evidence that the single elderly's coresidence with a person out of the labor force increased by 5.4 percent following Secure Communities. Empirical tests suggest that the increased price of household services due to the reduction of immigrants' labor supply is the key mechanism generating these effects. Taken together, these findings suggest that strict immigration enforcement policies could have a large impact on the living arrangements and labor market outcomes of U.S.-born persons.

Url: https://tmuazzam.github.io/mywebsite/JMP.pdf

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Authors: Toshmatova, Muazzam

Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Department: College of Business

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Pages: 1-50

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Population Data Science, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography

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