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Immigration crackdowns drive firms to hire more low-skilled foreign workers.

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Immigration Enforcement and the Hiring of Low-Skilled Labor
Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Bernhard Schmidpeter

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Firms hire more low-skilled foreign workers when immigration enforcement gets stricter. This doesn't affect native workers' wages or hours, and they don't move away from jobs where foreign workers are hired.