Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican <i>Bracero</i> Exclusion.
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Clemens, MA; Lewis, EG; Postel, HM
Published in: The American economic review
June 2018
An important class of active labor market policy has received little impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to raise wages and employment by shrinking labor supply. Theories of endogenous technical advance raise the possibility of limited or even perverse impact. We study a natural policy experiment: the exclusion of almost half a million Mexican 'bracero' farm workers from the United States to improve farm labor market conditions. With novel archival data we measure state-level exposure to exclusion, and model the labor-market effect in the absence of technical change. We reject such an effect and fail to reject a null effect.
Duke Scholars
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The American economic review
DOI
EISSN
1944-7981
ISSN
0002-8282
Publication Date
June 2018
Volume
108
Issue
6
Start / End Page
1468 / 1487
Related Subject Headings
- Economics
- 38 Economics
- 35 Commerce, management, tourism and services
- 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
- 14 Economics
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Clemens, M. A., Lewis, E. G., & Postel, H. M. (2018). Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican <i>Bracero</i> Exclusion. The American Economic Review, 108(6), 1468–1487. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20170765
Clemens, Michael A., Ethan G. Lewis, and Hannah M. Postel. “Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican <i>Bracero</i> Exclusion.” The American Economic Review 108, no. 6 (June 2018): 1468–87. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20170765.
Clemens MA, Lewis EG, Postel HM. Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican <i>Bracero</i> Exclusion. The American economic review. 2018 Jun;108(6):1468–87.
Clemens, Michael A., et al. “Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican <i>Bracero</i> Exclusion.” The American Economic Review, vol. 108, no. 6, June 2018, pp. 1468–87. Epmc, doi:10.1257/aer.20170765.
Clemens MA, Lewis EG, Postel HM. Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican <i>Bracero</i> Exclusion. The American economic review. 2018 Jun;108(6):1468–1487.
Published In
The American economic review
DOI
EISSN
1944-7981
ISSN
0002-8282
Publication Date
June 2018
Volume
108
Issue
6
Start / End Page
1468 / 1487
Related Subject Headings
- Economics
- 38 Economics
- 35 Commerce, management, tourism and services
- 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
- 14 Economics