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Undocumented Workers� Employment across U.S. Business Cycles

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  • David Brown
  • Serife Genc
  • Julie Hothckiss
  • Myriam Quispe-Agnoli

Abstract

Using matched employer-employee data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates how employment of undocumented workers varies along the business cycle and how it differs from the adjustment in employment of documented workers. The cyclical component of undocumented employment is found to be significantly more volatile than the cyclical component of documented employment. Simulation results indicate that complementarities between documented workers and capital account for almost 90 percent of the difference in measured volatility between documented and undocumented employment.

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  • David Brown & Serife Genc & Julie Hothckiss & Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, 2013. "Undocumented Workers� Employment across U.S. Business Cycles," Working Papers 1319, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.
    • Handle: RePEc:tcb:wpaper:1319
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    1. Julie L. Hotchkiss & Myriam Quispe-Agnoli & Fernando Rios-Avila, 2012. "The wage impact of undocumented workers," FRB Atlanta Working Paper 2012-04, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

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    Keywords

    business cycles; illegal immigration; undocumented workers;
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    JEL classification:

    • J - Labor and Demographic Economics
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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