Abstract

Low-skilled immigration has been argued to lower the price of services that are close substitutes for household production, reducing barriers for women to enter the labor market. Therefore, policies that reduce the number of low-skilled immigrants who work predominantly in low-skilled service occupations may have an unintended consequence of lowering women’s participation in the labor market. This article examines the labor supply impact of the Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA), which led to a large decline in the low-skilled immigrant workforce of the state. The analysis shows no evidence that LAWA statistically significantly affected US-born women’s labor supply in Arizona. This finding is partly explained by an increase in native workers in household service occupations due to LAWA, which offset the decline in immigrants in these occupations and caused the cost of household services to be relatively uninfluenced by the passage of LAWA.

中文翻译：

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研究《亚利桑那州法律法规》对美国原住民女性劳动力供应的影响

摘要

人们认为，低技能移民降低了家庭生产的替代品服务的价格，减少了妇女进入劳动力市场的障碍。因此，减少主要从事低技能服务业的低技能移民人数的政策可能会产生意想不到的结果，即降低了妇女对劳动力市场的参与。本文研究了《亚利桑那州合法劳工法》（LAWA）对劳动力供应的影响，该法律导致该州低技能移民劳动力大幅度下降。分析表明，没有证据表明LAWA在统计上显着影响了在亚利桑那州出生的美国出生妇女的劳动力供应。这一发现在一定程度上可以解释为：由于LAWA，本地工人从事​​家庭服务工作的人数有所增加，