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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2022
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15667
Verlag: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously authorized to employ more immigrants significantly increase production (elasticity +0.16) with no decrease or an increase in U.S. employment (elasticity +0.10, statistically imprecise) across several pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor.
Schlagwörter: 
immigration
immigrant
foreign
labor
mobility
skill
manual
high school
college
firms
elasticity
substitution
productivity
rural
urban
JEL: 
F22
J61
D22
Dokumentart: 
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