HKS Affiliated Authors
Robert W. Scrivner Research Professor of Economics and Social Policy
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The Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants. George Borjas, March 2017, Paper, "Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States, and there has been a heated debate over the impact of legislative or executive efforts to regularize the status of this population. This paper examines the determinants of earnings for undocumented workers. Using newly developed methods that impute undocumented status for foreign-born persons sampled in microdata surveys, the study documents a number of findings. First, the age-earnings profile of undocumented workers lies far below that of legal immigrants and of native workers, and is almost perfectly flat during the prime working years." Link