| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27874 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27874 |
| Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States | |
| Elizabeth U. Cascio; Ethan G. Lewis | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-10-12 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We examine how the legalization programs of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) have affected immigration to the United States since the late 1980s. Our empirical approach exploits variation in IRCA’s timing and the magnitude of the legalization shock across metropolitan areas for the one country – Mexico – that dominated the legalized population. We find that “opening the door” to family-sponsored admissions has indeed increased authorized immigration by family members. However, our estimates imply that each IRCA-legalized immigrant has sponsored only one family member for admission over the past three decades. Most induced admissions have also been immediate family, inconsistent with explosive chain migration. Estimates are highly robust and similar in magnitude when we use variation across countries of origin in the magnitude of the legalization shock, irrespective of place of residence within the U.S., or consider survey-based estimates of total immigrant arrivals, rather than admissions alone. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27874 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585581 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Elizabeth U. Cascio,Ethan G. Lewis. Opening the Door: Immigrant Legalization and Family Reunification in the United States. 2020. |
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| w27874.pdf（2603KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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