Employer Sanctions and the Wages of Mexican Immigrants

Wage differences between authorized and unauthorized Mexican immigrants can be explained by human capital factors prior to the 1986 passage of employer sanctions, which prohibited knowingly hiring unauthorized aliens. However, a significant post-1986 wage differential has been interpreted as employe...

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Main Author: Peter Brownell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2017-07-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.05