Implications of U.S. Immigration Policies for North American Economies

We develop a four-sector (labor-intensive agriculture, capital-intensive agriculture, service & construction, and manufacturing) general-equilibrium model of North American countries to analyze the effects of tighter U.S. immigration policies. Results show that these policies erode the comparati...

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Main Authors: Stephen Devadoss, Xin Zhao, Jeff Luckstead
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/298440