@article{Devadoss:298440,
      recid = {298440},
      author = {Devadoss, Stephen and Zhao, Xin and Luckstead, Jeff},
      title = {Implications of U.S. Immigration Policies for North  American Economies},
      journal = {Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {2020-01},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {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 U.S. labor-intensive  agriculture, causing U.S. production and exports to fall  and other countries to expand their 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.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/298440},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.298440},
}