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Author: Davila, Alberto
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1. Davila, Alberto
Pagan, Jose A.
Grau, Montserrat Viladrich
The Impact of IRCA on the Job Opportunities and Earnings of Mexican-American and Hispanic-American Workers. (Immigration Reform and Control Act)
International Migration Review 32,1 (Spring 1998): 79-95.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2547561
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Migration Studies
Keyword(s): Earnings; Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO); Hispanic Studies; Hispanics; Immigrants; Migration; Skilled Workers; Transfers, Skill; Wage Gap; Wage Levels

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This article studies the earnings gap between Mexican, Hispanic and non-Hispanic white male workers resulting from changes in both the wage structure and immigration laws that occurred during the 1980s. Our results suggest that Mexican and Hispanic workers were adversely affected by these two changes. Using data from the 1980 and 1990 One Percent Public Use Microdata Samples, we show that these "at-risk" workers minimized the negative impact of the increases in the returns to skill by gaining in the non-Hispanic white residual wage distribution. We conclude that at-risk workers increased their work effort to lessen the effects of Act-induced employment losses. Using 1983-1992 data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and EEOC data for this period, we provide support for this contention. COPYRIGHT 1998 Center for Migration Studies of New York Inc.
Bibliography Citation
Davila, Alberto, Jose A. Pagan and Montserrat Viladrich Grau. "The Impact of IRCA on the Job Opportunities and Earnings of Mexican-American and Hispanic-American Workers. (Immigration Reform and Control Act)." International Migration Review 32,1 (Spring 1998): 79-95.
2. Mora, Marie T.
Davila, Alberto
Boudreau, James
Social Networks and Black-White Differentials in Public Employment Agency Usage among Mature Job Seekers
The Annals of Regional Science 56,2 (March 2016): 433-448.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00168-016-0746-9
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Job Search; Racial Differences; Social Contacts/Social Network; Unemployment Rate

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We conceptually and empirically analyze how local labor market weakness impacts the usage of public employment agencies (PEAs) between Blacks and Whites in the USA. Employing restricted-use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, our empirical results indicate that Blacks have higher PEA-usage rates than Whites, likely caused by their higher unemployment rates. However, Whites in regions with relatively weak professional networks tended to tap into PEAs more than otherwise similar Blacks, reducing the Black-White differential in PEA usage. These findings fit with the conceptual prediction that Whites endure a disproportionate negative impact when tighter labor markets (and thus fewer referrals) exist. They also raise the question about whether current anti-labor-market discrimination policies account for potential job-referral differentials between Black and Whites. To the extent that employers favor employee recommendations from members of a particular racial/ethnic group, then perhaps policy targeting discrimination in the workplace should consider how job openings are initially advertised and subsequently filled.
Bibliography Citation
Mora, Marie T., Alberto Davila and James Boudreau. "Social Networks and Black-White Differentials in Public Employment Agency Usage among Mature Job Seekers." The Annals of Regional Science 56,2 (March 2016): 433-448.
3. Pagan, Jose A.
Davila, Alberto
Obesity, Occupational Attainment, and Earnings
Social Science Quarterly 78,3 (September 1997): 756-770
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keyword(s): Benefits; Benefits, Fringe; Discrimination; Discrimination, Employer; Discrimination, Sex; Economics of Discrimination; Economics of Gender; Economics of Minorities; Obesity; Wage Differentials; Weight

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Bibliography Citation
Pagan, Jose A. and Alberto Davila. "Obesity, Occupational Attainment, and Earnings." Social Science Quarterly 78,3 (September 1997): 756-770.
4. Pagan, Jose A.
Davila, Alberto
On-the-Job Training, Immigration Reform, and the True Wages of Native Male Workers
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 35,1 (January 1996): 45-58.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1996.tb00394.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Keyword(s): Discrimination; Discrimination, Job; Immigrants; Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA); Training, On-the-Job; Unemployment Rate, Regional; Unions; Wages

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An attempt to assess the 1986 Immigration Reform & Control Act's (IRCA) impact on the "true" earnings of native workers, ie, observed wages & compensation received in the form of on-the-job training (OJT). Data from the 1983-1992 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth suggest that IRCA reduced the true wages of male natives most likely to be mistaken as unauthorized. Mexican Americans suffered the largest decline in post-IRCA OJT. It is concluded that antidiscrimination policies following recent immigration reform have not fully protected some US natives against unintended IRCA-related employment discrimination ... Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Bibliography Citation
Pagan, Jose A. and Alberto Davila. "On-the-Job Training, Immigration Reform, and the True Wages of Native Male Workers." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 35,1 (January 1996): 45-58.