TY - JOUR T1 - Amnesty Programs and the Labor Market Outcomes of Undocumented Workers JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 631 LP - 647 DO - 10.3368/jhr.XLI.3.631 VL - XLI IS - 3 AU - Neeraj Kaushal Y1 - 2006/07/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/3/631.abstract N2 - I investigate the effect of the 1997 Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) on employment and earnings of undocumented foreign-born men from Nicaragua, Cuba, Guatemala, and El Salvador who were eligible for amnesty under the Act. I find that NACARA had a modest effect on the employment of these men; raised their real wage by 3 percent and weekly earnings by 4 percent. Estimates show that NACARA raised the wage of the target group without a high school degree by a statistically insignificant 1 percent and of those with high school or higher education by a statistically significant 5 percent. ER -