Substitution between immigrant and native farmworkers in the United States : does legal status matter?
Xuan Wei, Gülcan Önel, Zhengfei Guan and Fritz Roka
The policy debate surrounding the employment of immigrant workers in U.S. agriculture centers around the extent to which immigrant farmworkers adversely affect the economic opportunities of native farmworkers. To help answer this question, we propose a three-layer nested constant elasticity of substitution (CES) framework to investigate the substitutability among heterogeneous farmworker groups based on age, skill, and legal status utilizing National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) data from 1989 through 2012. We use farmwork experience and type of task performed as alternative proxies for skill to disentangle the substitution effect between U.S. citizens, authorized immigrants, and unauthorized immigrant farmworkers. Results show that substitutability between the three legal status groups is small; neither authorized nor unauthorized immigrant farmworkers have a significant impact on the employment of native farmworkers.
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2019
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Authors: | Wei, Xuan ; Onel, Gulcan ; Guan, Zhengfei ; Roka, Fritz M. |
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IZA Journal of development and migration. - Warsaw : Sciendo, ISSN 2520-1786, ZDB-ID 2895178-5. - Vol. 10.2019, 1/3, p. 1-27
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Subject: | elasticity of substitution | immigration | legal status | agricultural labor | nested CES framework | USA | United States | Substitutionselastizität | Elasticity of substitution | Migranten | Migrants | Agrarberufe | Agricultural workers | Arbeitsmigranten | Migrant workers | Illegale Migration | Illegal immigration | Einwanderung | Immigration |
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Type of publication: | Article |
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Type of publication (narrower categories): | Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 10.2478/izajodm-2019-0007 [DOI] hdl:10419/222175 [Handle] |
Classification: | J20 - Time Allocation; Work Behavior; Employment Determination and Creation. General ; J43 - Agricultural Labor Markets ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063998
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