Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70623 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2012-2a
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that, on average, across all firms, employing undocumented workers reduces a firm’s hazard of exit by 19 percent. The advantage to firms from employing undocumented workers increases as more firms in the industry do so, decreases with the skill level of the firm’s workers, increases with the breadth of a firm’s market, and increases with the labor intensity of the firm’s production process.
Subjects: 
firm survival
illegal immigrants
hazard rates
survival analysis
JEL: 
J15
C41
J42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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