Implications of U.S. Immigration Policies for North American Economies

Implications of U.S. Immigration Policies for North American Economies

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We develop a four-sector (labor-intensive agriculture, capital-intensive agriculture, service & construction, and manufacturing) general-equilibrium model of North American countries to analyze the effects of tighter U.S.immigration policies.Results show that these policies erode the comparative advantage of Publication Metrics and Subject Categories of Biomechanics Journals U.S.

labor-intensive agriculture, causing U.S.production and exports to fall and other countries to expand their Mapping Land Cover and Tree Canopy Cover in Zagros Forests of Iran: Application of Sentinel-2, Google Earth, and Field Data exports to the United States.In Mexico, low-skilled labor demand in labor-intensive agriculture increases as production rises.The effectiveness of U.

S.tighter immigration policies depends on the substitutability between U.S.domestic and undocumented workers.Immigration policies exacerbate the wedge between Mexican low-skilled wage rate and the undocumented wage rate, intensifying the underlying cause for unauthorized entry.