Replication data for: Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Michael A. Clemens; Ethan G. Lewis; Hannah M. Postel

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Project Citation:

Clemens, Michael A., Lewis, Ethan G., and Postel, Hannah M. Replication data for: Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113187V1

Project Description

Summary: An important class of active labor market policy has received little impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to raise wages and employment by shrinking labor supply. Theories of endogenous technical advance raise the possibility of limited or even perverse impact. We study a natural policy experiment: the exclusion of almost half a million Mexican bracero farm workers from the United States to improve farm labor market conditions. With novel labor market data we measure state-level exposure to exclusion and model the absent changes in technology or crop mix. We fail to reject zero labor market impact, inconsistent with this model.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J18 Demographic Economics: Public Policy
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      J43 Agricultural Labor Markets
      J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
      O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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