| 来源类型 | Working Paper
|
| 规范类型 | 报告
|
| DOI | 10.3386/w22834
|
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22834
|
| The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis |
| Ryan Edwards; Francesc Ortega
|
| 发表日期 | 2016-11-14
|
| 出版年 | 2016
|
| 语种 | 英语
|
| 摘要 | This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the economic contribution of unauthorized workers to the U.S. economy, and the potential gains from legalization. We employ a theoretical framework that allows for multiple industries and a heterogeneous workforce in terms of skills and productivity. Capital and labor are the inputs in production and the different types of labor are combined in a multi-nest CES framework that builds on Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and Peri (2012). The model is calibrated using data on the characteristics of the workforce, including an indicator for imputed unauthorized status (Center for Migration Studies, 2014), and industry output from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Our results show that the economic contribution of unauthorized workers to the U.S. economy is substantial, at approximately 3% of private-sector GDP annually, which amounts to close to $5 trillion over a 10-year period. These effects on production are smaller than the share of unauthorized workers in employment, which is close to 5%. The reason is that unauthorized workers are less skilled and appear to be less productive, on average, than natives and legal immigrants with the same observable skills. We also find that legalization of unauthorized workers would increase their contribution to 3.6% of private-sector GDP. The source of these gains stems from the productivity increase arising from the expanded labor market opportunities for these workers which, in turn, would lead to an increase in capital investment by employers. |
| 主题 | International Economics
; International Factor Mobility
; Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
; Labor Compensation
; Unemployment and Immigration
|
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22834
|
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
|
| 引用统计 |
|
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
|
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580508
|
推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714 |
Ryan Edwards,Francesc Ortega. The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis. 2016.
|
|
文件名：
|
w22834.pdf
|
|
格式：
|
Adobe PDF
|
此文件暂不支持浏览
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
