The impact of party affiliation of US governors on immigrants’ labor market outcomes

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2018

Abstract

Do immigrants have better labor market outcomes under Democratic governors? By exploiting variations associated with close elections in a regression discontinuity (RD) design applied on gubernatorial elections in 50 states over the last two decades, we find that immigrants are more likely to be employed, work longer hours and more weeks, and have higher earnings under Democratic governors. Results are robust to a number of different specifications, controls, and samples.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Journal of Population Economics

First Page

627

Last Page

670

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS